The Long Way Home
Today was an awesome day! Many readers will know that our family has been in Wichita, KS, for the last several days, getting to know the birthmother of a little girl (due 8/6) that it looks like we’re going to be able to adopt. Today, though, was quite different, which is why it winds up in this particular blog. After leaving Wichita at about 8:30 AM, we made it to Independence, Missouri, at a bit after noon. As it turns out, each day, there is a ten-minute “Prayer for Peace” service in the Community of Christ ’s Temple . 1 The service was nice, but we later agreed that it just didn’t have that certain je ne sais quoi that allows the Spirit to flow so freely, in our own meetings. (More on that, later.) After the prayer service, we decided to go downstairs and sign up to tour the temple. We were the only ones to do so, so an older gentleman showed us a ten-minute video (which identified Joseph Smith, Jr., as the “founder of the Latter-day Saint–tradition churches”) and then showed