The bass player found God under a tent at the O'Farrell County Fair
, the O'Fair
!, as they billed it
. Exclamation point and all
. It was right after the pie eating contest
. They were all pecan pies
, donated by the Friends of Molly Albrecht Society
, the town matriarch credited with bringing the smallpox vaccine into the county in 1899
, at the height of the epidemic
. A big grinning man in bib overalls won the contest
. The huge red and yellow striped tent was sponsored by the Reverend A
. Aaron Gildey and the Evangelical Church of Brown Springs and featured Bible readings and pamphlet dispersal and personal testimonies and free funnel cakes
. And hey
, it was A
. Aaron Gildey
, the regionally famous evangelist
, healer of the
sick
. the infirm
, and the morally
, physically and spiritually bankrupt denizens of the Pre
-Raptured Midwest
. There was foot washing and symbolic anointing in the Spirit and three te
enaged girls lip synching and doing a dance routine to a prerecorded contemporary Christian pop song
. Church elder Cordell Tackett and his wife Corrine led a group of fairgoers in sermon and song
. One guy testified and
a lady fainted
. What they told the bass player was this
: Jesus was the ultimate conductor
, see
. He composed the soundtrack to our lives and He laid down His own life so that we could make beautiful music with ours
. Will you use it to create a heavenly symphony or waste it on noise and disharmony
?
