here’s life

Today I went to the church I normally go to, but haven’t been to for a month or so.

Music
Sometimes I wish that people would sing more time-tested music, and sometimes they do. Today we sang “Blessed Assurance” which is a good one. I tried to sing the bass and tenor parts to it, but pretty much couldn’t. I am not sure if it is because I can’t follow parts without a good solid piano playing them, or if the small variations from the traditional melody threw me off enough that I couldn’t extrapolate what the harmonizing structure would be. I could follow the basic bass line—easy, just copy the bass guitar–but couldn’t snap onto the other parts. So, like most people, I just sang melody and it was cool. Do parts somehow worship God better?

We also sang a newer compilation: “Here is our King”. When they started singing it, I was like, “I’ve heard a song like this before.” It took until after the chorus to realize that the style was reminiscent of DCfC’s “Title and Registration”—the stacato words running across phrases, the simple, clean melody, and reduced musical backup matched “So I’m purposing a swift orderly change/’cause behind it’s door/there’s nothing to keep my fingers warm”. A difference was that it’s syntacticly challenged verses set up for the chorus which mentioned God. So, “the music you love–on the topics you profess!”

And now I am going to go play Ultimate—a game I like, but doesn’t really have any Christian spin to it.

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