A Mighty Hope

My fingers have earned a good break after the weekend, I’d say. Getting all the music up to par was a lot of work, but it was also a lot of fun this weekend. I mean, it’s not everyday that we get four trombones and a trumpet to play with us on the worship team, after all. 😀 At the end of the rehearsal Saturday night we were all having so much fun with the music that we decided on the fly to add another song at the end of the service! And everything on Resurrection Sunday morning went well (though the extra rehearsal with the brass between services meant there wasn’t really a break for me), but after lunch I just took a nap for a bit; I couldn’t even stay awake for college basketball, haha. The choir’s song “A Mighty Hope” went very well too (and I didn’t screw up toooo badly either ;-). I don’t know if I’ll continue accompanying the choir unless they’re in a pinch and Ray can’t do it, just because of the time commitment, but I was still glad I could help them out and serve with my talents on the piano. After this semester we’ll also be back down to just two pianists for the worship team as well, so while I’ll have a mini-break by playing only once in April, that’ll be ramping up again a lot after that.
I had two Easter dinners too, one a lunch at Green Bowl with some other meteo grads, and the other up at Chad & Rachel’s in Bellefonte before Bible study with PSCG folks. It felt a lot like Thanksgiving, but minus the turkey. 🙂 And this was the second year in a row that for Bible study on Easter we’ve simply read through the Passion narratives in all four Gospels. It’s really cool just reading through that much Scripture, reading the accounts of those most important events a couple thousand years ago.
“And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that He raised Christ from the dead. … But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead…”
~1 Corinthians 15:14-15a, 20a
He is Risen! We have a mighty hope!