open windows

as it is a sunday night
we had worship
and since i played in the praiseband
i was supposed to show up at the church at 4:30

i was talking on the phone with my MeMe when it dawned on me i only had 15 minutes to get ready and be there
so i quickly ended the call, packed my stuff, and headed to my car
i was pleasantly surprised when i found a decent parking spot on campus
and got out to get going

upon looking at my watch and realising two minutes wasn't enough time to drop off my stuff at the loft and get back to the church,
i decided to be a couple of minutes late
which is ridiculous because if you know me, you know kayla does not like to be late
even for things that do not require precise timing of presence
like loading the worship stuff in the car
but that is not the point

i got back to the church and walked around back to find jonathan's santa fe in the parking lot
but no people were anywhere to be found
so i tried the door thinking they must be inside,
but the door was locked
and so was the other door from the parking lot
i grabbed out my phone and called maddy
no answer
i started to call jonathan,
but then maddy called me back

"are you at the church?" i asked as i answered
"yeah, we're here. we're trying to get in," she responded
now, since the school year started,
(what? like two weeks ago?)
this was not the first,
nor the second,
but the third time i had been locked out of that very church
"ohkay," i said, my wheels turning as i tried to figure out how we were to get in, "let me call tafta."
so i dialed the phone and tafta answered.
"hello?"
"hey, this is kayla"
"hey"
"we're locked out. are you at the church?"
"no"
"is maggie at the church?"
"no"
"ohkay. i'll talk to you later. bye"
"bye"
around this time, mads, jonathan and noah came around the building
i informed them tafta was not here and offered no other solution to our predicament
they informed me the organist was playing inside
mads suggested we bang on the door until the organist heard us and took pity
i stayed at the back door in case someone walked through

it quickly became clear to me that neither of these options were a valid solution
considering we were getting nowhere with either of them

so i walked around the building with a passing thought about climbing in a window
and met jonathan along the way
after peering into one of the sanctuary windows,
we again went to the back
assessing the situation, jonathan said
"the door is locked and we have no key"
"i wonder if all of those windows are locked?" i responded, mostly thinking to myself
i climbed down the embankment as found myself along a ledge
"wow, this is much higher than it looked like from up there"
but i jumped down and found myself in front of an unlocked window to the basement
with a little nudge it came open
"jonathan, the window is open" i called "come here and help"
jonathan appeared from around the building
"do you have the window?" i asked after passing it off to him so i could pull the blinds up
"yes"
around that time, noah joined us
and as i worked on the blinds, the window came down on my head
"ouch," i laughed
"sorry, it slipped," jonathan apologised.
"it's cool, i have the blinds. you have the window?" i asked again as i was gearing up to climb through
"yes"
with that i started through the window
at first, the drop to the floor did not seem like a big deal,
but all of a sudden i was shrieking as i slipped off of the sill
i landed rather hard on my back and found myself staring at the ceiling
a chorus of
"did you just fall?"s
and
"are you ohkay?"s
rang out from above
i took a moment to contemplate my status
the fall hurt
but i was [mostly] ohkay
and we were finally in

after a couple of "i think it's funny your only logical solution was to climb through a window"s
i got to thinking about how representative this story is of my life

i am constantly told things are impossible,
or i'm simply not capable of things,
or  whatever else,
but there's always an open window

and yeah,
i may get hit over the head with it right before falling through and questioning if i'm ohkay,
but somehow things always work out

so the lesson here:
when the church is locked 
and you have no key
find the open window