My Church

By Karen A. Kimball

Karen A. Kimball, "My Church", Friend, Mar. 2011, 27




I go to church
To worship there.
I always treat
My church with care—
Pick up my papers,
Clear my trash,
Fold up my chair
And put it back.

Songbooks, scriptures,
Pictures too:
I'm careful with
The things I use.
For when I treat
My church with care,
I can feel the
Spirit there.

Illustration by Celeste Smith

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