There was a transportation hiccup!
My baby sister and her husband were in town, on their way home from their honeymoon, and I wanted to visit!
I've been sick for over a month, and this cough is still holding on!
And seriously, this cough. But it's not going to stop me from singing anymore, because it's done way too much damage on that front already.
Today was the last Sunday of the Christmas season, and the Gospel featured Jesus's baptism by John. We started off Christmas-y with Joy to the World, then we got more bapistmal in You Will Draw Water, and ended celebrating Jesus's example with Praise to You, O Christ, Our Savior. But for the Communion hymns...!
I told a friend that I would probably share So Longs My Soul, unless I already have. And, while I haven't in this blog, I did on G+ several months ago--for very good reason. It's another expressive, evocative song that lends itself well to solo verses, and we have some ridiculously talented soloists. So I rather predictably got a tiny bit choked up. But as I've mentioned, I did share that song already, and there was another candidate.
I was exited at rehearsal this week when I saw we were singing Behold the Lamb today. This is and old favorite from the St. John's era, particularly because of the nice and fun harmony that the men used to sing. Our director here had written a different arrangement--that harmony was still there, but the tenors and basses had other things to do--and that was fine. It's a wonderful hymn either way, and directly relating to the Gospel, again--the good news John was waiting for, that the clouds parted and a dove showed us, that He was actually here. He made it. It was like the sunrise, and we'd been waiting in the dark for just that.
Without further ado, it's that choir that records the ceiling again, with Behold the Lamb.
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