Today at work I discovered that the church I serve has the softbound hymnal, Sing the Faith. It is ninety five percent the same as the similar supplemental hymnal in my own denomination.
As I thumbed through the small familiar book, I felt a huge longing to play and sing those familiar hymns that I love. Since I'm not much of a singer, the longing seemed to be about playing them. Music, of course, touches us at some deep place within our souls.
As I played the hymns in my mind, there was definitely a congregation there singing them.
Honestly, I played out in my imagination a whole scene. It was a church of twenty five or so faithful saints, with me playing the hymns, Gerry doing the other parts of the service and me preaching. That somehow seemed like a very satisfying scene to imagine. Playful thinking, I might call it. Nothing more than that.
But who knows? Who knows? God knows. God knows.
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