Tag: postlude

• An Old Favorite Worth Remembering

  An Old Favorite Worth Remembering When I was a little kid in Sunday School, up to about age 7, I learned and loved all the Sunday School songs, like “Jesus Loves Me,” “Jesus Loves the Little Children,” “This Little Light of Mine,” and so on. But when I turned 8, I started to learn hymns.…

  Marian

  July 26, 2022

  God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Music

  favorite hymn, Hear Our Prayer O Lord, Hymns of Peace and Comfort, Joseph Scriven, Kum Ba Yah, Lord Listen to your children praying, Lord’s Prayer, O Lord Hear My Prayer, postlude, prelude, Take it to the Lord in Prayer, Talking with God through Music, What a Friend We Have in Jesus

• Ghostly Tricks

  Over the past 14 years, Mim and I have cared for more than twenty elderly people who have lived with us in our home, usually one or two residents at a time. Almost all of them have lived out their last days with us. Some of them lived with us for just a few days,…

  Marian

  November 1, 2016

  Assisted Living, Celebrations, Music, Reflections, Reunions

  Abbey, All Saints Day, All Saints Wall, assisted living, Country Comforts Assisted Living, Doris, first grade teacher, For All the Saints, friendly ghost, funeral, ghost, Halloween, Helen, Konica Minolta printer, laser printer, O When the Saints, pipe organ, postlude, power strip, practical joke, printer/copier, saints, sense of humor, When the Saints Go Marching In

• 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