Tag: gift of music

• Progress

  Last week I was at our Christmas Mountain timeshare in Wisconsin Dells again for a 4-day, solitary getaway. I packed heavier than usual this time. It took me 9 trips to bring everything from the car into the condo. I had one small suitcase with a few clothes, 3 briefcases full of books and notebooks,…

  Marian

  May 2, 2017

  Music, Reflections

  All People that on Earth Do Dwell, Anglo-Genevan Psalter, Catherine Winkworth, Christmas Mountain, David the Psalmist, devotional book, Doxology, favorite hymns, getaway, gift of music, God’s gift of music, Halle Halle, Halle Halle Hallelujah, hymnbook, hymnbook of the Bible, hymns, Joachim Neander, King David, Listening for God in Music, Marty Haugen, Old Hundredth, Praise to the Lord the Almighty, Psalm 100, Psalmist, Psalms, retreat, Thomas Ken, timeshare, William Kethe, writing project, writing retreat

• Tap Dancing in Church

  

  That was a first. A woman tap danced to my postlude in church Saturday evening. I was playing a pretty jazzy arrangement of “Just a Closer Walk with Thee” on the piano, and I heard some rhythmic tapping. It sounded great, and I sensed a few people gathering together to watch someone near the front of…

  Marian

  March 1, 2016

  Celebrations, God’s Love, Lent, Music, Reflections

  A Song to Sing a Life to Live, A Sound Spirituality, cat dancing, dancing cat, Don Saliers, Emily Saliers, gift of music, Indigo Girls, Jeff Vanden Heuvel, Just a Closer Walk with Thee, Melody Bober, My Life Flows on in Endless Song, Pastor Jeff, percussion instrument, postlude, praise God, Praise God with dance, Praise God with music, Psalm 150, Robert Lowry, spiritual practice, tap dancing