Several years ago, the Wednesday Morning Coffee Bunch made bookmarks from plastic canvas and red or blue ribbons, one for every Prayer Book and Hymnal in our church.
I am constantly amazed at the number of ribbons fluttering loose in the pews like so many Tibitan prayer flags. People will open the Prayer Book to the Order of Service, toss the ribbon aside, flip to the Psalm without marking their place, and then scramble to find it again. One man even removes his marker completely "because the ribbons are never in the right place, anyway". Does he think we have a team of pixies who go through the church and mark every hymnal on Saturday afternoon?
Today was Boy Scout Sunday, and I noticed almost every visitor carefully used the bulletin to mark the books. Now, how hard would it be to get our members to use the ribbons?
I lawled at the vision of a "team of pixies" moving amongst the pews in a spritely fashion pre-service as they put all of the bookmarks in the "right place"... hehehe:)
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