Talent Show

Last night was the somewhat annual Talent Show at my church. I say "somewhat annual" because it was only recently revived about 4 years ago, but then we didn't have one last year because we were hiring a new worship minister, etc. And I missed the one the year before that. So, it had been 3 years since I saw a talent show. All I can say is WOW! We definitely have some talented folks in our family. My favorite thing from the whole night was a high school senior and two of his buddies that are in the drumline at their high school. They came drumming in from the back and did some really cool stuff with their drums. It threw me back to high school for a minute because our drum line at AHS had this really cool cadence called "The Beat." Ah, the good ol days.

What makes me a little sad is that many of these talents aren't shared within our church body very often. Mostly because a lot of those talents shared last night are musical with instruments and I come from a church heritage that utilizes only acappella worship during assemblies. Don't get me wrong - I love singing in worship where you can hear the clear voices and all four parts (gasp!). But I do also love rocking out in praise to God. I'm discovering that the Spirit touches my heart in different ways depending on how the worship style I am experiencing.

So anyway, wish you all could have been there....I mean really, guitars, pianos, drums, magic tricks, a masked bicycle stunt rider, a clarinet trio, many vocalists, a 4 year old violinist....can it get any more fun that that?