Fio was the first one up from the pew yesterday morning to get her forehead annointed with ash and she wasn't quite sure what to do. Neither, apparently was Pastor Susie.
"Do you want me to stay down here or come up the steps to you?" Fio hissed, not wanting to spoil the show for the twenty or so congregants observing from their pews.
"Whatever is comfortable for you," Pastor Susie hissed back. "Do you need someone to assist you?"
"No, I'm okay. I'm a stepper," Fio replied as she started up toward the nave. "But do you want me on the top step or the one just below you?"
"Whatever is comfortable for you."
Trying to be helpful wasn't getting her anywhere with la pastorella, so Fio decided to go for humble and stop on the lower step. The ashes were marked on her forehead and the approprite words uttered, to which Fio was horrified to hear herself automatically reply, "Thank you," which was totally inappropriate. To top things off, she gave the rest of congregants a big-toothed smile as she grabbed her tote and hurried down the middle aisle toward the parking lot so she could speed over to Dan's and have lunch with her brother and Friend Paula.
No one would ever guess Fiorella's a life-long Lutheran with an arm-long generational heritage.
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