Jan 3, 2016
In this episode of Confetti Park, we hear a wonderful and true
childhood story from the Louisiana-born storyteller Ms.
Chocolate.
This is a story about when she attended her first Lord’s Supper at
the Galilee Baptist Church in Alexandria, Louisiana. Ms. Chocolate
was only four years old, but she was looking forward to the supper
at the little country church.
“Now, I didn’t know who the Lord was, but I knew what supper
was! Supper meant fried chicken and cornbread and collard greens
and pound cake! Well, I wanted to go to that supper.
When I walked inside the door, they had a table sitting up
front, and it had a white sheet over it, and I’m trying to figure
out, what could be under that sheet? Must be a whole ham or a
turkey or something!
I sat on the front pew and I kept watching… I was wondering
when are we going to eat? When are we gonna eat?”
The story continues in Ms. Chocolate’s wonderful voice. When she
and the other children are left alone in the church house, they go
up front to investigate what’s under the sheet.
Ms. Chocolate, also known as Gwen Williams, lives in Picayune,
Mississippi today. She left New Orleans in the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina in 2005. She tells stories all around the Gulf
area. http://chocolatestoryteller.blogspot.com/