Friday, November 26, 2010

Thanksgiving for Advent and a new year

Dear friends,

I hope your hearts are full of gratitude this weekend.  We each have so much individually to be thankful for, and, as a group, we have billions of blessings for which to sing praise and thanksgiving!  I find myself very thankful for each of you-- for the gift of your time, talent, and being which you share with all of us in our music ministry.  I am very thankful that we have a pastor and staff and congregation that understand and support what we collectively bring to the worship life of our church.  

This Sunday is the culmination of Thanksgiving weekend, the first Sunday of Advent, and the first day of the new liturgical year. We have the opportunity to be thankful, to begin to prepare for our hope in the gift of Christmas, and to sound praise for the rebirth of another year of tradition and possibility in the life of the church.  Please plan to join us Sunday morning in the choir room at 9:45 a.m.  We have a lot to sing this week-- Lost in the night, Peace (from the set of Shaker Songs), and Jeremy's arrangement of Come Now, O Prince of Peace with strings and flute, in addition to some beautiful Advent hymns.  I look so forward to greeting you all Sunday in the choir room at 9:45 a.m.

With thanksgiving for all you bring to my life and for the blessings of all we will share together in this holy season,
TT