Doing The Right Thing
Last night, right before I fell asleep, I started to think. I'm wondering if I am doing the right thing. I decided that I wanted to sing again, and go back to choir. That's fine and dandy. Problem is that I would be giving up something that I've come to enjoy: Sitting out in the congregation with Dale and Kyan. I enjoy that alot. I never got to do that while growing up in church. I was either an acolyte or when there wasn't communion, I would be sitting in the choir. I almost always had a robe on.
Sitting out in the congregation has given me a new perspective. NO one sings in the congregation. (Well except for that lady that has to add vibrato to everything she sings.) Last Sunday, I found myself to be the only one singing Lamb of God right before Communion. Everyone else was getting ready to go up and get their wafers and wine. I wonder if I bother people by singing out there. Dale and I sit in the back of the church, so I know you can hear my voice coming through loud and clear. But do I want to give up the time I get to spend with Dale and Ky just to sing in the choir?
Maybe there is a compromise here. I could just sit with the choir on anthem days. The choir only has an anthem once a month anyways, unless there are multiple holidays in one month. That doesn't happen very often. How fair though is that to the choir? And I'm not sure if I will be able to get there early enough on anthem Sundays. Dale likes to get there right on time. I dunno. I really have to think this through a little more. However, tonight I am off to choir practice. Maybe I will talk with Barb on the subject. I am a music person. It doesn't take me long to pick up a selection and sing it well. I know Bernice and Pat don't go over the piece of music before an anthem Sunday. They can't get down the stairs. So maybe, Barb will let me just skip that part of warming up. Who knows?
Sitting out in the congregation has given me a new perspective. NO one sings in the congregation. (Well except for that lady that has to add vibrato to everything she sings.) Last Sunday, I found myself to be the only one singing Lamb of God right before Communion. Everyone else was getting ready to go up and get their wafers and wine. I wonder if I bother people by singing out there. Dale and I sit in the back of the church, so I know you can hear my voice coming through loud and clear. But do I want to give up the time I get to spend with Dale and Ky just to sing in the choir?
Maybe there is a compromise here. I could just sit with the choir on anthem days. The choir only has an anthem once a month anyways, unless there are multiple holidays in one month. That doesn't happen very often. How fair though is that to the choir? And I'm not sure if I will be able to get there early enough on anthem Sundays. Dale likes to get there right on time. I dunno. I really have to think this through a little more. However, tonight I am off to choir practice. Maybe I will talk with Barb on the subject. I am a music person. It doesn't take me long to pick up a selection and sing it well. I know Bernice and Pat don't go over the piece of music before an anthem Sunday. They can't get down the stairs. So maybe, Barb will let me just skip that part of warming up. Who knows?