A few months ago I was sitting outside from a Saturday evening church service in the church’s cafe. We were trying yet another new place. I was using the cafe because I anticipated the music was going to be TOO LOUD. Sure enough, it was. Sitting out here the music, though softer, seemed loud enough to sing along with, the way it should have been inside. The LOUD MUSIC in so many of these churches makes me want to avoid worship altogether. I decided I would not enter the “sanctuary” for the sermon once the “music” stopped.
Does this have to do with my age? Yet I see lots of people near my age sitting and listening in these places. Is it just me and my particular set of ears?
Are the people (musicians[?]) behind the microphones subjected to the same levels of volume? When these people reach my age will they have hearing difficulties similar to mine?
Out here even the voices seem TOO LOUD. Are they really?
Whatever the case - - whether it’s them, or me - - I am clearly not of their group.
The voice that came out later, which I assumed to be the sermon speaker, seemed completely out of character with all that came before. At the start it compared to Garison Keeler from “The Prairie Home Companion”. But wait - - he picked up steam, like a train leaving a station.
