From the Music Director - end of the year

I want to end 2011 with thanks. Thanks to and for all of the volunteers in all of the music ensembles. Thanks to and for the worship leaders. Thanks to and for the instrumentalists. Thanks to and for our wonderful pastoral leadership. Thanks to and for all the church members and attendees that have supported the music ministry. Thanks to and for all the wonderful friends and strangers that stepped up to support me during (what I hope is) the most difficult time of my life. Thanks to and for wonderful in-laws that give me family where I once had none. I want to give thanks for all of these things.

But, that doesn't change all of the other emotions that I'm experiencing at the same time. I also want to focus on all the others in our church and community that are going through the holiday season in grief. Like me, the grieving may be recent. Other have been dealing with their loss much longer. In the same breath that I lift up my thanks I also lift up all of us who are struggling this Christmas. I ask you to please do the same. God DOES answer prayers. Please, send them out and send them often.

And finally, I pray that God blesses all of our families with the best possible Christmas ever.

God Bless,