Under Repair

Men in t-shirts hosing

plastic pews and altarpieces.

Wall-less church reveal.

Hidden behind a pocket of rainforest trees and the local gym plaza is the shell of an old church under repair. Early this morning (Sunday) is the first time I’ve ever seen anyone in it.

I greatly enjoyed the music and bustling activity spilling out through the open wall-frames as I practiced my Tai Chi forms. Churches are usually places of reverence, formality, and sacred rituals and the missing walls could not help but reveal the human-side of Sunday worship.

Melinda J. Irvine

Melinda J. Irvine is a freelance writer, blogger and creative. She writes for business clients and online publications all over the world. When she’s not writing about holistic health and ways to become a more effective writer, Mel is practicing tai chi and supporting the emotional wellbeing of marginalised kids in the Philippines. Sometimes she even has time to cross stitch.