Sunday, 02 December 2007

That's All

My time singing in Christmas Vespers is over.

Some people rejoice in that. I don't. I couldn't. I loved it, and I'll miss it, even if it wore me out every year.

I was also honored that Lisa asked me to pray. I didn't expect it and wasn't asking for it. To pray for the Chapel Choir before our first service today meant a lot. Maybe I read too much into things like that, but to be able to lift our group and our singing to our Heavenly Father, to acknowledge our need, and to acknowledge our realization that it is an act of praise rather than performance before our first service today was an honor. I think what Dr. Richmond said right before I prayed was right on target. These are services and they acknowledge something great-the arrival of a Savior, a Savior who was born and Who would die and eventually rise again. They weren't performances (although in fairness, they were performance-caliber material; we do work hard on Vespers). I hope everyone took that reminder to heart, including myself.

Goodbye, Vespers... I pray you ministered to the congregations. And to us.