Needing an emotional bailout ...

It is forty-five minutes before the service.   Only a handful of people are there ...the choir, an elder and his wife, and the pastor.   Walking up the steps slowly, she recalls how it has been years since she has been to church.  She hesitates at the front door, her three small children shielded behind and clinging desperately onto her.  She wonders if this is a good idea after all.