The Light Of The World

This . . .
Between 15 and 25 years ago, my wife Gari and I were involved with the Methodist children's choirs and directed more than a few children's musicals. I played Psalty a couple of times. He was a big blue song book. Gari played Grace in Amazing Grace. Tarah played Charity Church Mouse in I can't think of the name of it, the boys were sheep, camels, mice, shepherds, etc., there was 365 Days of Christmas, Mary Had A Little Lamb, and some other ones I don't remember.
At the heart of each musical was the good news of the gospel. Our goal was always to impact each child with the love of Jesus.
We directed together. Gari was great at costumes and I was good at sound and lights.
Sound-wise, we wanted every child to have a speaking part, and a microphone in the hand of everyone who spoke. We used tape recorded accompaniment with "Gari choreographed" actions and dance.
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Light-wise, we had this homemade light board with off/on switches and dimmers, a lot of extension cords, and rigged up lights with a multitude of colored flood lights in cans on tall poles.
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That . . .
My son Taylor informed me this week that his church was having a Christmas program and that he was going to provide the lighting. He dug out the old homemade lightboard and started looking in boxes for all the old flood lights. He found them, and amazingly, after twenty years, ALL of the flood lights still worked.
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This is That . . .
As time goes on, many things change,
but The Light is still shining brightly.
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Merry Christmas!
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