Getting a Lift
Rev. Michael Thompson
Woodhaven Presbyterian Church
March 7, 2010 — Third Sunday in Lent
Mark 1: 29-39
I was going through my files this last week and I came across a wonderful article that was written by Adam Gopnik who writes sometimes for the New Yorker and sometimes for the New York Times, but this article appeared in the New Yorker and it was entitled Bumping Into Charlie Ravioli. “Who was Charlie Ravioli?” you might wonder. Well, when Gopnik’s daughter, Olivia, was three years old she had an imaginary friend named Charlie Ravioli. And it seems that one day the father walked into her room and she had her play cell phone open and she was talking into it and she said, “Ravioli, Ravioli, are you there? Can you come out and play? This is Olivia!” “Well,” she said, “call me.” And then she snapped the phone shut and said to her dad, “I always get his voice mail!”
(…excerpt from podcast)
