(not necessarily in that order)
We came, we sang, we felt the joy of channeling beautiful music.
Many friends, Expanding Light guests, and fellow Village residents came to listen and be uplifted by the vibrations of beautiful music.
We all rejoiced in the first full concert of live music in the Temple of Light since December 2019.
Personally, I’m now looking ahead to April 2022 for our first Oratorio in the Temple of Light.
It’s time.
For a while now we’ve been planning to increase our Sunday service singing group to two singers on each part, for a total of eight in the group (woohoo!).
This was finally going to be the week…such anticipation!
Instead, we got to face a big dose of reality regarding the surging numbers of COVID cases in Nevada County, and realized that this is not the time to add singers. 😕
The plan is now on hold and we’re bummed…as are the others who are craving the opportunity to sing again.
But I’m concentrating on being grateful that so far we’re managing to keep live music happening for Sunday service, no matter how small the group has to be.
Today was the first time since December that we had live music for Sunday service! And — boy oh boy — did it feel GOOD!
I think you can tell from these photos just how happy we were to be singing again! There was such overwhelming joy at one point during our warm-up rehearsal that I couldn’t hold back the tears. I’ve so missed being a channel for this music.
It was this verse from “Well Done, Lord!” that really got me:
Well done, Lord! Oh, very well done!
At last I’ve discovered the mystic key:
The world’s joy, O Secretive One!
Replies to Your sweetness in me.
For here in my heart lies the answer:
Your love, shedding light like the sun!
All life seems to leap like a dancer
When, gazing, I see only Thee!
I feel the joy, the sweetness, the love and the light so strongly through our music. And I’m so grateful.
The lack of regular choir is really starting to weigh on me.
The virtual choir experience has very real benefits and definitely can convey a certain power. And we’ve been able to add back live music in the form of small groups for Sunday service. But the vast majority of our choir members are left out in the proverbial cold. Mainly because there’s nothing we can do right now that really involves the entire group in one activity.
Take the virtual choirs we’ve done. Because of the technology aspect, we’ve never had more than twenty out of more than fifty choir members participate. Same thing with Zoom choir rehearsals. And given that we don’t yet have permission to meet as a choir even outdoors…! Well, the hole that not having choir leaves in the fabric of our community is beginning to feel awfully big, and getting bigger.
So now you can understand why I’ve got “where there’s a will, there’s a way” on my mind. Because there has simply got to be a way to connect and interact and share and be together AS A CHOIR even while being safe and staying healthy! We just have to find it. 🤔