When I was a little girl, I used to sing “specials” at church. You know, stand-on-stage, microphone-too-big, everyone-staring kind of singing. One Sunday, I was singing with a friend when she got the giggles… the contagious kind. And once I started giggling too, there was no stopping it.
The song fell apart. The giggles won.
And my grandma? She stared straight through my soul.
That one look was enough to end my public singing career before it ever really began.
From that day on, I avoided singing in front of people at all costs… until years later, when my grandma passed away and requested that I sing at her funeral. The very thing I’d been afraid of for decades became something I couldn’t say no to.
This episode is funny, awkward, a little traumatic, and strangely full circle. It’s about church giggles, lifelong embarrassment, complicated love, and what happens when fear and family collide in the most unexpected way.
Because sometimes the thing that scares you the most… comes back around one last time.