Wow! I can't tell you how fun it is to have a FREE and INSTANT way to share songs. I've been dreaming of this for years. And discovering how one little piece at a time.
So, here we are in my living room and I'm going to play you a song. :)
This is an arrangement of "Each Life That Touches Ours for Good" that I put together to sing at a funeral about 2 years ago. It was actually the service for a woman that I didn't know very well--I had served as her visiting teacher for just 2 or 3 months before she passed away. Her family asked me to sing at her funeral, and requested this song. Necessity is the mother of invention. I create arrangements when I don't have the one that I need! Ha.
I remember the chaos of that day or two. Ethan was 2, almost three years old, Jake was just a few months old, and I was trying to concoct a new arrangement and nurse the baby and make the potato casserole that I was bringing to the luncheon, and find a babysitter, and get myself showered and ready to sing... I remember hustling out the door, armed with my microphone stand, kiddos, and potato casserole, and laughing that I would be as surprised as the audience to hear how the song turned out. I felt the enabling power of the atonement that day, quickening my mind and giving me the capacity to create something beautiful and then convey that to a grieving family.
I don't recall having met Martha's husband before the day of the funeral.
But I will never forget the moment when he intercepted my return from the stand to my seat in the pews and came and gave me a huge bear hug, right there in the middle of the aisle. A large, jolly man, with a santa claus beard, with tears in his eyes, giving me a hug. And holding on, tight. It was a special moment.
And that day I felt like God had used me as an instrument in His hands to share His love.
So I got to sing that same arrangement at a funeral today. This time for a woman I had never even met. I know her daughter, though, and after I finished singing and our eyes locked, our hearts locked too. I could sense her loss and her pain, and at the same time, her gratitude for a song that celebrated her mother's life.
I treasure those moments. And those people. And this arrangement. And The Source of all good things and all good feelings and all good songs. :)
So here it is!
Each Life That Touches Ours For Good | Upload Music
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Each Life That Touches Ours For Good
Posted by Em at 9:47 PM
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3 comments:
Hey Em,
You have blessed my life for good :). Excellent choice of those two songs to combine. Absolutely beautiful. I love you for sharing~
Love it! Do you have this for sale so I can buy the sheet music? Would LOVE this!
I am singing for a funeral in four days and this song was requested. Is there a way for me to purchase the sheet music online and print it from my home computer?
Amy
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