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LOST IN WONDER

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Last Sunday was World Communion Sunday. The church I'm serving, First Presbyterian of Naples celebrated the day with music of diverse cultures. It was as if we, sitting in our uni-ethnic congregation, stretched out our hands a little further into the rainbow of the worlds peoples. World Communion Sunday was also the debut of FPC's new quartet who are an exercise in diversity itself. Three long-time section leaders who'd been with the choir for many, many years retired to greener pastures this summer. The diversity comes in as the age of their three replacements, added together, is likely less than the age of one of the senior retirees. Don't mis-understand. I'm not being ageist. It's simply a huge difference that's hard to miss. Their youthful voices, youthful style, youthful attitudes, youthful demeanor could be startling. However, they've entered with such grace to fill shoes that were beloved, and they're doing it like ducks take to water. [see