A moment of disappointment
Oct 29th, 2008 | By Ian Poulton | Category: MinistryThere’s a line in a Garrison Keillor story that manages to be ordinary and profound in the way that Keillor does so well. A character’s mother shifts subtly in her comments to her daughter who has not fulfilled the mother’s dreams. “You could do something with your life”, the mother would say; then one morning the change comes, “You could have done something with your life”. The shift in tense is telling; the days of opportunity are past, all that is left is regret.
Washing the chalice, after the midweek …