Choir/"Beggars to God" - Sally Rogers and Howard Bursen (written by Bob Franke)
[At Musiclectic yesterday, If They Could See Me Now (sung by Shirley MacLaine in Sweet Charity)(still in a Fosse mood), and one of the communion hymns today, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, sung by John Michael Talbot and choir]
[More ginko leaves at Duke Gardens, to the right.]
A non-angsty choir post (grin), which started out short with a song, and then I learned more about the songwriter, and the post just grew and grew...
I had my first voice lesson in almost two months last week (we were out of town and then I had bad allergies). It went well, and it warmed me up for the choir rehearsal. I was able to sing G's for the first half hour of the rehearsal. Unfortunately, by the end of the rehearsal, my voice was tired and I could hardly sing at all.
Anyway, today, I warmed up before choir by doing part of my voice lesson, and I was able to sing the G's in the descant for the first hymn. This makes me very happy! We sang "Keep Your Lamps" with drums - lots of fun (here's a video, but they sing it faster and without drums).
I realized today that I feel part of the choir. Not that anyone else probably thought that I was "on probation," but I felt that way. It takes me a while to feel at home in places.
The Gospel reading today was the parable of the wise and foolish virgins:
6"At midnight the cry rang out: 'Here's the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!'
7"Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. 8The foolish ones said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.'
9" 'No,' they replied, 'there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.'
10"But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.
11"Later the others also came. 'Sir! Sir!' they said. 'Open the door for us!'
12"But he replied, 'I tell you the truth, I don't know you.'
13"Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
I understand that we're supposed to see this as a precautionary tale - this is what happens when you're not ready. We're looking at it from the point of view of the foolish virgins. I always have a difficulty with this parable, however. I can be really compulsive, at times, about making sure that things are organized the right way and that everything is in place. So, I kind of identify with the wise virgins - except that they seem very uncaring. I know that they might run out of oil if they shared the oil, but can't they share lamps? (I'm not missing the point here, I'm just sort of wandering around it)
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