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Shut up and sing!
As music ministers we’ve all been there. We pray and study and sweat and beg and are underpaid and overworked and are trying to have a meaningful choir rehearsal.
Thanksgiving and Christmas are three weeks away … and, to put it bluntly … the choir won’t shut up! (Sometime it’s the kid’s choir; mostly it’s the Harley Altos.)
Q: So what’s a servant to do?
A: I don’t have a clue. (In 30 years of directing choirs, I still haven’t come up with a fool proof answer – perhaps that says something about the fool searching for the answer!)
Unlike your less pious colleagues, you don’t lose it and yell at the choir (but sometimes you might).
We face job stress and family pressure, not enough rehearsal time, budget cuts and the personal strains of ministry, yet we continue.
Why? Because Christ calls us to lives of service and part of our gifts and skills are leading music for worship. It is a high calling and very good thing; stronger than the occasional headaches of dealing with less than perfect humans (ourselves included).
We know we’ve honored God’s call when the choir stands on Sunday mornings, opens their hearts, and allows the Holy Spirit to sing through them, enriching worship for those who have ears to hear. And the people in the pews have no idea what hard work went into this “effortless” gift.
God bless ‘em.
Here are some fresh new titles for the upcoming season from Alfred Sacred Choral:
Thanks Be to God
Sing We Now of Christmas
Only a Manger
Adam Lay yBounden
And be sure and take a look at "God Is With Us."
Blessings to us all as we continue to serve -
Maintain,
Sheldon Curry
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