Making a Joyful Noise

This is the first year that all three kids have been able to go to choir. Our church has a phenomenal children's choir program. The women who lead the children's choirs are committed not only to teaching these kids wonderful music, but to teaching them how to worship and help lead worship. They are learning to love God with beautiful hymns and choruses. 

Eliana has been so excited to join the choir! I am delighted to say that every day, she asks,"When is it going to be Sunday?!" And all day Sunday she asks,"When is it going to be time to go to choir?!" 

I waffle all the time between thinking she looks so big and she looks so small. In these big chairs, she looked little! She is probably one of the youngest kindergartners, since her birthday is in August.

I accidentally arrived a little early to pick them up and realized that it was one of a few Sundays in which the older choirs and the younger ones practice together (I think they are all practicing the same thing, to sing in worship in a few weeks, and they get everyone together so that they can get to know one another a little). I stood in the back and listened to them rehearse Seek Ye First. I was thisclose to bawling. It was so beautiful. The leaders are quite gifted (they all sing in our church choir, which is at least locally renowned) and the sound of those precious voices blending with the directors...it was a foretaste of our glorious future for sure. I was so glad I got there a bit early.

I am thankful for the many people who invest in the kids in this way, teaching them profound truths using a powerful medium. I pray that these truths get deeply ingrained, and become a constant reminder of God's great love for us.