Finding God in Church

No question of sincerity in the service.  No doubting the intensity of the sermon.  The choir with its usual ardor was slamming out the music of the past four centuries with a determination no one could doubt, but the sacrament -- the truly holy aspect of this whole affair -- was in the congregation.  It is in parents holding children and in people holding hands.  It is in their being family or in their smile to friends or to strangers.  The sacrament -- the presence of God -- is at the altar, but it is more evident here in the people who face it.  They brought, at least today, as much as they found.