Advent Meditation
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Advent meditation for December 4, 2019
My favorite part of mass is the music. My favorite prayer, “The Gloria,” is best heard in song, I think. 

When I am singing in the choir, the service takes on a whole new meaning. Not only am I sharing my gift with the congregation, but I am sharing it with other gifted musicians, as they share their gift with me. To sing harmonies in prayer transcends the musical and spiritual expectation. And when those harmonies are sung with my church family, with whom I laugh and cry over life, the experience is complete.

I like to imagine the angels singing “The Gloria” to the shepherds at the telling of Jesus’ birth, even though Luke 2:13-14 writes otherwise!