CHAPTER 35
Grandma Lucy’s warmed up, and now she’s really going at it strong. I’ve seen her in action enough times to know exactly how it all works. She starts with a short prayer, intercession for the pastor and the congregants, things like that. Then it’s a Bible verse. And pretty soon she’s got her hand up in the air, and she’s spewing Holy Spirit blessings out on all of us with a fervency that would make even your style of public speaking look as stoic and rigid as good old Mr. Darcy’s.
“The Lord takes such great delight in you,” she says, and I know that this is her mix of jumbling prayer and preaching and biblical paraphrase all together. “He rejoices over you with songs of deliverance. His delight is in you, the workmanship of his hands, the masterpiece of the artist of artists, t
