God's Orchestra

 

After eleven years here, St. Paul’s Director of Christian Education has taken a call to a church farther west. That also means that the senior choir is losing his wife as our accompanist. We will miss Jaymes, Lindsey, and the girls, but I know God has great things planned for them and for us at St. Paul’s, too. And we are all members of the wider Church even though we will no longer belong to the same congregation.

I Corinthians 12 compares the Church to a body, but I envision it as God’s orchestra. Jaymes and Lindsey are moving to another instrumental section, but we are all playing the same symphony. Here is a poem I wrote and dedicated to them.

God’s Orchestra 

God is the composer,
Creating the music,
Developing the theme,
Orchestrating harmony,
Resolving dissonance
     in His perfect time.

God is also the conductor,
Selecting the music,
Setting the tempo,
Keeping the instruments in balance,
Directing the crescendos
     and decrescendos of life.

We are the musicians,
Reading the music,
Observing the notes,
Maintaining the rhythm,
Following the conductor’s lead
     to the Glory of God.

We are also the instruments,
Performing the music,
Playing our parts,
Needing help to stay in tune,
Relying on another’s hands and mouth
     to produce beautiful sounds.

Together, we are the orchestra,
Honoring the music,
Working in harmony,
Blending together,
Praising and glorifying God
     in a heavenly symphony. 

                                                            By Kathryn Page Camp
                                                            February 16, 2021

 Dedicated to Jaymes and Lindsey Hayes as they take their talents to a different section of the orchestra.