Thursday September 11, 2025
Time: 5:55 PM
Song: Any Time at All
Artist: The Beatles
Mode of Consumption: Listening to MP3s on shuffle while changing a light bulb
at church.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/70XHAdaMaoLIOVb1hSaeJ4?si=55a4b28464ca4ce0
Jake and I grew up
in First Lutheran Church of Jordan just north of Sterling on IL 40. We became
fast friends, flinging large Lego-like blocks at each other’s head in the
Sunday School room when we were toddlers.
In junior high, we
began catechism together, along with some girl named Jodi, her cousin Abbie,
and a couple other peers. A robust number, considering a decade later, the
church would be absent youth almost completely.
We bonded over the
Beatles in those days. Consuming their music, rewatching the anthology, and
searching for pretty much any other available media on the band.
About thirty years
later, he met me at church early this evening to help replace a bulb in the
ceiling of the sanctuary. The actual changing of the bulb was a one-man job,
but the building of the scaffolding was better accomplished with two people. He
is also a couple of inches taller, which also proved to be beneficial to the
cause.
These days, we see each
other a few times a year. Many times, just in passing, or at trivia events,
which are fun, but don’t often yield many opportunities for conversations.
Once when we were
teenagers, we were tasked with moving boxes out of the parsonage for a
departing pastor. A member of the council mentioned needing “strong backs and
weak minds” for a job like this.
“Been a long time
since this place need our strong backs,” I mentioned as we were wrapping up.
A few minutes later,
this song played on my phone (I had the music playing the entire time. We never
did anything without music on). It summed the day up well as I thanked Jake for
the help; we accomplished the task with no injuries, no damage, and no other
pitfalls.
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