Middlechurch

Little sweetheart, there’s such sad news this morning. There’s been a terrible fire in the wee hours of the morning at Middle Collegiate Church downtown and much of it has been lost. 

Middlechurch is the sister church to little one that I go to on the Upper West Side, West End Collegiate. And Middlechurch is also the church your dear friend Coy used to attend when he lived here in NYC. No one’s quite sure how the fire started, fireman were called to the scene around 4am. 

Because of the pandemic, none of us have been able to gather at either church since last March. Services - like that lovely candlelight one I used to go to on Wednesday nights - have been held, such as they can approximate it, on Zoom, these many months. And tonight there’s a vigil to held on Zoom, so people, especially those of the Middlechurch congregation, can voice their feelings, their sorrow, their prayers, their memories. It’s at 7pm tonight. I’ll be looking in. 

I haven’t been able to reach Coy yet. I texted him and finally decided I should leave him a voicemail. It’s terribly sad. 

I love you.