Once again I apologize for the lack of meat in recent posts. I'm intensely involved in a couple of projects with deadlines, and when that happens, other things requiring sustained thought get put on hold. It's not that I haven't had any opinions lately!
Our choir anthems for Sunday, September 29, 2013: Holy, Holy, Holy (Robert Clatterbuck, Hope Publishing Company, C 5470). No YouTube video, so the link takes you to the anthem on sheetmusicplus.
And I Choose You (Deboarh Governor, Beckenhorst Press, BP1789). I only wish we could have had Janet playing the oboe part!
These two are what the choir did; there was also a wonderful soloist, but I don't have his music to enter. What made this service special is that in addition to being regular Sunday worship, it was also a wedding of one of our choir members!
There are plusses and minuses for this not-so-common practice, but one difference I thought particularly wonderful was that despite all the usual pomp and circumstance for a wedding, it was crystal clear that this service was not "all about the bride." Nor the couple. It was a joyous sacrament taking place in the midst of God's people worshipping him as usual (almost).
Oh, and the reception was catered by our very own Chef Jessica. We are fortunate to have her in charge of many of our church meals, and if I ever need a caterer here I know exactly where I'm going. Not since Heather left Ascension in Pittsburgh—she served there under a deacon who was a professional chef—has church food been so amazing. (I really, really like church potluck dinners. But Chef Jessica serves the most amazing Middle Eastern food!)
