My mom's sister just died and we just got back from the funeral. Her name was Grace and everyone in town called her, 'Amazing Grace.' What I didn't know is that on one of Grace's sons has a wife who has a relative that plays the bag pipes. So at the end of the service, he played "Amazing Grace" on the pipes!

I had seen them on the pew behind where he was handing out the bulletin, so I talked to him. He wasn't in a kilt and only wears one for events and said for the few minutes here he didn't want to wear it. I told him about my UK's and USA kilt I ordered. He asked about my clan, which I don't have one, but he was of the Davenport one.

He will be moving to our area next year so I set him up with a link to our local pipe and drums group. The pastor of that church knows I wear a kilt and whispered to me when he walked in if I had it on. I didn't want to as none of that side of the family has really seen me in a kilt and I didn't want to draw attention away from my mom's sister's funeral. It was a great service and I think that is the first time a piper has played in a traditionally Finnish church.

DALE.