Most of you know - some this will be news - I used to be a pretty decent singer at one point in my life. School choir, Church choir, musicals, competitions, solo performances, the occasional wedding. I still sing to my audience of 3 around the house. I'm used to putting my request for obedience to a song (sing it with me - "Have patience, have patience, don't be in such a hurry, when you get impatient you only start to worry...") or a helpful reminder that yes indeed, "God is bigger than the boogie man". It comes naturally to me to burst out in song, although, lately I have noticed I stick to belting out songs that already exist rather than the precious made-up versions I sang when the girls were younger. Maybe I am already self-conscious about being the crazy mom who marches to the beat of her own drum!
The girls and I have a little routine on school mornings where mom tries to get out the door 5 minutes early and the girls figure that means they have 15 more minutes to get their shoes on! Well, the rare and beautiful morning happened yesterday when we all were up, dressed and fed with 20 minutes to spare. The girls marched upstairs to play while I cleaned up the kitchen. I had 5 more minutes before crunch time so I ran upstairs to throw in a load of laundry. As I came out of the laundry room I stopped to listen. No fighting, no movie, just girls singing a song. Kiki sang about how she was the mom fixing breakfast for the sweetie (that's what they call the daughters cuz that's what I call them!) Ellie returned her reply in a singsong voice. This continued for a couple more lines until I popped my head in to the room, smiled at them and got a garbled no word tune from Mattie!
Psalm 40:3 says, He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God.
I pray today that you have a new song to sing to those around you. I am sure it will be contagious; maybe there will be little musicals everywhere - all singing and giving God praise just because He is worthy of our praise.
4 comments:
Yay for spontaneous singing! You can sure tell when kiddos are sung to-especially about the Lord. I sing the patience song to my girls too! They also love me sticking in my head and belting "rise and shine and give God the glory glory!" Or, maybe, I just like to do that to them:) And my little one can't clean without the clean up song, and can't go to sleep without her goodnight song (the Shriley Temple version of "goodnight my love")Anyway, what a precious memory to have of your sweeties, huh?
What a cute post. I'll bet your "sweeties" love that you sing to them, and I think it's special you make up songs. Don't be afraid to be the crazy mom who marches to the beat of her own drum! That's what will make you FUN!
Hi Christy,
I thought of you tonight when Dawson asked me if I knew the LarryBoy "RumorWeed" song. I said yes and then later in the movie he asked me to start singing it... I think I did pretty good- even down to the Rumor Weed's New York accent! Not quite praise & worship but I'm getting there!
:) amber
Dear Christy,
Oh my goodness! I love The Music Machine. And my mother always sang the Herbert the snail song to my sister and me--and, of course, I sing it to my girls too!
So fun to meet you in person--and online too!
Joanne
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