Tetelestai. Elizabeth Dehority of Keep on Spinning passed away early on Thursday morning. Please keep her family in prayer.
Into your hands, O merciful Savior, we commend your servant, Elizabeth. Acknowledge, we humbly beseech you, a sheep of your own fold, a lamb of your own flock, a sinner of your own redeeming. Receive her into the arms of your mercy, into the blessed rest of everlasting peace, and into the glorious company of the saints in light. Amen.
Palm Sunday. This is the anthem we sang on Palm Sunday. It is currently stuck in my head.
Fannie Flagg captures it. I was listening to her book, Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven, for part of the drive home on Wednesday and everyone is talking or musing in their heads about how one woman impacts them positively. It’s kind of made me think about my legacy and what I’ll be remembered for doing.
Books on CD. I picked up two at the library, hoping that they would make the drive less montonous. They definitely helped — I was sorry when we were going to our destinations on Saturday and Wednesday and we arrived because I wanted to listen to more of the book.
Geeking out on church music. We get at professional trumpeter for Easter and three opera singers coming in to lend their voices. The anthem we’re singing isn’t tricky but it will be nice to have a “full” choir, even if some of the volume is coming from 3 people.
Sidney Lanier poetry. I sang a similar anthem to this when I was in high school and it seems like an appropriate one, given the season.
Eyes crossing. I am ending here because it’s after 1 a.m. and I’m exhausted. Have a fabulous day.
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