Today I overheard my wife asking my granddaughter what to call a group of
Brownie Scouts. I think the answer is obvious. It is a “Box of Brownies.”
We have wonderful names for groups of things. We have prides of lions,
gaggles of geese, melodies of larks and flocks of pigeons. It appears to me
these are names just made up by anybody. Therefore I think cities should
henceforth call groups of pigeons “Frustrations of Pigeons” or “Headaches
of Pigeons.”
All of this brought me to wondering what we would call a collection of
saints. I think the answer to that is “Church.” But because we can make up
this stuff I hereby declare a collection of saints to be a “Selection.”
After all they have indeed been selected. First God selected them. Actually
that is pretty inclusive since God has selected us all to be saved. Secondly
saints are self-selected. We get to choose whether or not we want to be part
of God’s group. It really boils down to our choice or selection. Maybe the
name should be a “Choice of Saints.” I like that one. After all the saints are
top choice people.