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July 11, 2008
Singing for the soul
I have become a lapsed church goer lately instead finding solitary meditation and reading more helpful. But how I miss the singing. I was privileged to hear a colleague yesterday sing as part of a choir. They performed some wonderful choral numbers. The concert took place in a church and so the words of Rejoice, rejoice though not necessarily sung by all in the choir to the worship of God, spoke to my soul. Music and song seem to bring one closer to God. Singing the hymns of Wesley and Watts even today can lift the spirits. But it is not just the words, you can read a hymn and be left cold. It is not just the music, you can listen to the radio and not be moved. But the joining in one voice with others in celebration of God, of love, of life is the magic ingredient of soul singing.
Posted by Anna Dixon at July 11, 2008 09:10 AM