Success! Now let's rinse and repeat....
So the crazy!day worked out quite well. I worked at the farm until 1:10, got home a tad late, ate lunch, showered, got to the church of the wedding later than I hoped, but the guy there let me in and I worked out all the particulars of organ useage there. It has so few stops that I actually had to spend a while sorting out what I could do with it. It doesn't even have a trumpet stop! :( Full Organ was actually somewhat underwhelming, but then again, the organist sits below a lot of the pipes, so it may well sound more impressive to the congregation behind me. Not much practicing got done there, mostly experimentations and planning. But now I'm technically ready. I just need to get musically ready, and that can be worked on right here in the comfort of my own room on the keyboard as I mentioned yesterday! :)
Then I had to run this youth band rehearsal thingy for 2 hours. I ended up singing because there was no piano where we were. Doh. It was cool, though, and two of the boys who I remember being difficult to control at VBS last year were actually pretty good this time. So we got some good work done, and are almost ready. On Thursday we meet again in the church so I can try to play piano (if I can still sing at the same time), and we'll also have a sound system guy helping, and our guitarist will show up this time. That'll be nice.
And then the Baccalauriate service at Trinity this evening was quite nice. The reading was Isaiah 40:1-31 (which turned out to be the whole chapter!), and that was nice because a section of it is a nice song I learned at youth group some years ago which has clearly fallen by the wayside. Mr. Wilder's message referred back to that reading a lot, which was excellent, because it really made it perfect for me to play the song Isaiah 40 as the "recessional" music. No I did not plan it until the middle of the service, why would I do a thing like that? Preludes, Postludes, even Offertories... whatever. If it's background music then it's improvisatory. Or at least whatever-the-heck-I-feel-like. O:-)
Tomorrow I'm meeting with our Pastor. I am finally going to talk to him about this whole pastorship ministry business that has been bouncing around my brain for the past couple months. It's kind of a shame, because life at home seems to throw me into a strange rut where I get generally unproductive and lethargic. At school I feel more energised, enthused, and full of ideas. Here it's almost like I'm hibernating sometimes; it's really bad. So to avoid digression, the point is that I haven't really thought about these ministry ideas much since I got home a couple weeks ago. I kind of fear that I won't know what to say, or will have forgotten what I wanted to express to him in, say, early May. But the advantage now, is that I have had some final closure with the chaotic elements of my recent life, and that my mind and soul are much more at ease than they were before. I am likely thinking clearer now than I would have previously. Either way, this is a long-awaited event and I'm looking forward to it, finally.
I never did quite finish that book I got, though. I think it's sitting in the other room right now, bookmark showing off how I made it 4/5's of the way through it. I'd go continue reading it, but I have wedding music to practice.
I should really stop talking about the wedding music here, because if Mel happens to find the spare time to read this she'll start worrying about me and my quality. And as the bride, she's got plenty of other arrangements to worry about, surely. Don't worry, you can count on me. I'll just keep working to make my contribution to your happiest of days as beautiful as possible.
Then I had to run this youth band rehearsal thingy for 2 hours. I ended up singing because there was no piano where we were. Doh. It was cool, though, and two of the boys who I remember being difficult to control at VBS last year were actually pretty good this time. So we got some good work done, and are almost ready. On Thursday we meet again in the church so I can try to play piano (if I can still sing at the same time), and we'll also have a sound system guy helping, and our guitarist will show up this time. That'll be nice.
And then the Baccalauriate service at Trinity this evening was quite nice. The reading was Isaiah 40:1-31 (which turned out to be the whole chapter!), and that was nice because a section of it is a nice song I learned at youth group some years ago which has clearly fallen by the wayside. Mr. Wilder's message referred back to that reading a lot, which was excellent, because it really made it perfect for me to play the song Isaiah 40 as the "recessional" music. No I did not plan it until the middle of the service, why would I do a thing like that? Preludes, Postludes, even Offertories... whatever. If it's background music then it's improvisatory. Or at least whatever-the-heck-I-feel-like. O:-)
Tomorrow I'm meeting with our Pastor. I am finally going to talk to him about this whole pastorship ministry business that has been bouncing around my brain for the past couple months. It's kind of a shame, because life at home seems to throw me into a strange rut where I get generally unproductive and lethargic. At school I feel more energised, enthused, and full of ideas. Here it's almost like I'm hibernating sometimes; it's really bad. So to avoid digression, the point is that I haven't really thought about these ministry ideas much since I got home a couple weeks ago. I kind of fear that I won't know what to say, or will have forgotten what I wanted to express to him in, say, early May. But the advantage now, is that I have had some final closure with the chaotic elements of my recent life, and that my mind and soul are much more at ease than they were before. I am likely thinking clearer now than I would have previously. Either way, this is a long-awaited event and I'm looking forward to it, finally.
I never did quite finish that book I got, though. I think it's sitting in the other room right now, bookmark showing off how I made it 4/5's of the way through it. I'd go continue reading it, but I have wedding music to practice.
I should really stop talking about the wedding music here, because if Mel happens to find the spare time to read this she'll start worrying about me and my quality. And as the bride, she's got plenty of other arrangements to worry about, surely. Don't worry, you can count on me. I'll just keep working to make my contribution to your happiest of days as beautiful as possible.