I changed my mind - I rejoined the choir at church today

[Towncrier]

As some of you know, I had a falling out with our new choir director Alice last year. Choir was just not fun anymore, so I quit. I was relieved but also sad that I would not be singing with all my friends. I miss the Thursday night practices, but the choir director's choice of music especially for the men was horrible. Last Sunday, my neighbor (and fellow men's chorale tenor) Barry asked if I could help with a computer problem on his daughter's PC. I worked late every night last week, but managed to get home at a decent hour on Thursday. I went over to his house about 10PM and reloaded Microsoft Word on his daugther's computer. I asked him how choir was going. He told me that the men were singing "The Lord Is My Light" on Sunday morning. This is one of my favorite men's pieces that we had done several times in the past and I know it by heart. I asked Barry how they sounded. Recently the choir and the chorales have had a really good blend. I think that Alice is finally pulling the groups together. He told me that he could always use some assistance and that he wished I would come back.

Anyway, it turns out that I am the lay reader for the early service for the month of January. And the chorales sing at the early service. So I was faced with sitting in the chancel of our sanctuary and watching while the chorale sang the anthem. I thought about it from Thursday evening until last night. I was tempted to call Alice and see if she would let me sing even though I had not attended practice on Thursday. I didn't call. So this morning we all got up a little earlier than usual just so we could be at church early enough to catch Alice before she headed down to the choir room. I saw her in the hallway and asked if she could use my voice for the anthem. She thought about it and decided that it would be OK. I warmed up with the chorale and, to make a long story short, once again sang with the men's chorale at church. DW Sue was overjoyed to once again hear me singing. She has supported my decision to leave the choir even though she didn't agree with it. She kept reminding me over the past several months that she misses hearing me sing. I must admit that it felt "right" to be in the choir.

So I will have to rearrange my schedule to free up Thursday evenings again. The thought of singing in the choir again has made me happy in a way that I haven't felt since last June. I just wanted to share my joy with you all.

 

[amid chaos]

John...many have heard your glorious voice sing tender songs...but not in church!

Bravo for you.....and bravo for the choir. Enjoy!

 

[chell]

Glad you are back in the choir. Hope things continue to go well between you and Alice.

 

[JC2]

Towncrier, I am so happy for you that things worked out!

 

[Dan Murphy]

That's great, John, you do sound wonderful. When you sing, you praise the Lord twice. Nice.

 

[Marla Hellwig]

Good news John

 

[dizneenut]

That is wonderful, John!

 

[CrazyBoutDisney]

John, as a member of my own church's choir, I can empathize completely! I know the joy you feel raising your voice in praise and am so glad you went back. You have been blessed with a beautiful gift and your congregation is all the richer for your sharing. God bless.

 

[Beast]

....but I went through a really difficult time with our choir director about two years ago. In fact, I still have conflicts with him.

The thing I have to remember is that I'm not there for him (the choir director) but rather that I'm there for HIM. If I can't do it for that reason alone, then I need to get out of the way.

As it turns out, now he's made me the liason between him and the choir. Our choir averages around 70 people at any one time plus about another 20 who kind of float in and out from time to time due to work schedules, etc. He needed someone who could take care of all the "little" (many not so little) details so that he could be the choir director (he's also kind of like our "Pastor" because of the size of our church) and not get bogged down with all that kind of stuff and still be able to do his job well.

You never know how things will work out.

 

[Princess Michelle]

That's wonderful TC! I'm so glad you got things straightened out and are once again where you belong.

 

[helenabear]

That's wonderful news John! You do have a beautiful voice and as you know you are praising Him with your voice Seriously makes me reconsider going back to my church choir (left in September).

 

[NancyIL]

That's wonderful news, John! You have a beautiful voice, and I know the members of your church will be glad to hear you singing again.

 

[nativetxn]

I'm glad you will be singing with the choir again, I know how much you love it

 

[Pembo]

Good for you John! Just the other day I was wondering if you had gone back to singing in the choir! Enjoy yourself and lets hope ole Alice has mellowed a bit.

 

[Serena]

TC, it's easy to see how happy this has made you. {{{hugs}}}

 

[dalepool]

I'm glad your Thursday nights are filled with music. Makes the heart smile.

PattyN

 

[Pin Wizard]

Enjoy it, TC! Our church got a new choir director in the past couple months. For the most part she's okay. But she took out one of the most beautiful songs we sang and replaced it with something "noisy" shall we say? Good luck!

 

[rbuzzotta]

Glad to hear your back and singing again........doing what you love to do.......

Here's hoping all work out with Alice and you get to continue singing........

 

[zurgswife]

Good news John....glad your back singing....

 

[zurgswife]

Good news John....glad your back singing....