I thought about blogging a meaningful post and deeply spiritual blog but then I realized that since it is after the holidays I should share a couple funny stories.
One of the funniest moment I can think of was this past December. I was recruited to play music for the annual Christmas play at the parish. I practiced and rehearsed and the day was getting near. The play consisted of children playing the parts, and they had been practicing for a few weeks. The director had an idea that on the day of the play she would invite any children in the audience who weren't in the play to come up and create a children's choir and sing with me. I thought this was an interesting idea but I went with it. The day of the play arrived and I was excited to play and show my music skills. Plus I love to sing Christmas carols. The Director of the play invited the children to come and sing with me and no one moved . There must have been 30 kids in the audience and not one child budged. I thought wow do I look that scary, what could it be, but I shook it off and was ready to start the play. I was about to start singing when a group of three kids came running over to me and asked if they could sing with me. I was truly touched that these three kids from the same family wanted to sing with me. One of the children motioned for me to come to him like he wanted to tell me something. So I leaned in and the 9 year old boy said in the most loving voice, "My dad felt sorry for you and told each of us that he we would give us $5 if we came and sang with you." It was a time that I will never forget.
The other brief story I would like to share is from our recent retreat. My fiance came on retreat and led a small group. She is one of the best at relational ministry and I cant wait to marry her. That is besides the point, but she was leading a group of 9-10 grade girls. She was their small group leader the entire weekend. At the the end of the weekend one of her small group girls came up to me and told me she had a funny story for me.
She proceeded to tell me about an instance on Saturday when her small group was asking Nikki how she liked her job. Nikki said she really enjoyed it except for the fact that it so far from Joey. This girl who we will name Bri (for all intensive purposes) thought that was very strange since Joey was engaged, but Bri just let it go. Later on that weekend after hearing about Joey a lot from Nikki and seeing them together on retreat started to think this is not ok, Joey is engaged to someone and this girl Nikki is hitting on him, but Bri just kept to herself. That is until Sunday when Nikki mentioned in small group that she was engaged and, Bri just couldnt control it anymore and said something about it not being ok that Nikki likes Joey when they were both engaged to someone else. All the girls looked confused and had to explained to Bri that Joey and Nikki were engaged to each other. Bri told me this story on the way home from retreat, and she said I quote, "Im sure glad you weren't cheating on your finace that could have been real awkward."
So all in all it was a good Christmas season, I experienced kids being paid to sing with me and a teen who thought I was cheating on my fiance....Hopefully the new year brings more great stories!
