Project 365 Day 93-----Broken branches

Left Yerrington bright and early this morning to beat the heat. After a welcome shower and a brief nap I was back at church which turned out to be a HUGE evening for me. I need to back track a little..............
Several weeks ago my pastor quite accidentally heard me sing and said I needed to be up there singing with the worship team. Now I LOVE to sing, especially while worshiping my Lord and Savior, but although it has been a hidden deep desire of mine, it has also been too scary for me. I don't sing in front of people and I DON'T sing in front of a mike, so I ignored him. I have been praying that I would find my place in this new church body, then last week at church he called me up after service along with the only other female in the band. He said he wanted us to start working on singing together and I gulped down my fear and said yes. They rehearse every Sunday at 5pm before our 6:30 service and today I was to join them in rehearsing. I was already nervous about rehearsing and when I got there Daryll Ann said I was singing with them in service tonight. Well, she wouldn't let me sneak out of it, so after 45 minutes of rehearsal including one song that I had never song before, I performed with the band tonight in church and made it through without missing a note or choking. All praise goes to the Lord. I just made it between Him and me and sang in worship. God is so good and I thank Him for bringing me through my fear to use my voice in His service. The band has been together for a long time and called themselves the Crazy Eights. Our church is called Branches, and so lately they have begun to refer to themselves as the Broken Branches. This old twig is definitely broken, so maybe I'll fit right in.

Pastor Jim was gone this week to perform a wedding, so we had a guest performance from "Thou Art." They mix music with art and while his wife and others perform singing, and artist paints a picture. It was a very moving performance. I have intended on posting a couple of pictures from that performance here, but apparently I took the photos with no sim card in my camera---Oops!

What a day!