I feel like the theme of the last year or so has been “just keep pushing on.” We have had a lot of heaviness, and I promise this won’t be a long drawn out post about the like. There are more of those to come, I’m sure 😉 but not today.
Today, however, was once again pushing through! Brady and I were up to lead our church in some familiar Christmas songs. Sickness has trickled into our house once again, and yesterday, I woke up woke up with a sore throat. So I knew my turn was coming. But I figured if I was good to myself, it wouldn’t have to advance too much in one day, and Sunday would be fine. However, I had a TERRIBLE sleep and woke up feeling like death itself. I could barely get a word out without erupting into a coughing fit, and then gagging to high heaven. It was not ok, and being in this lovely state of knocked-up-ness that I am, there was NO option for DayQuil or anything good and strong to pull me through. Brady and I had a very quite, short conversation and decided that I would stay home. I could be completely useless at church, and he could figure something out. But within minutes, we changed our minds and knew I had to get there and help. There was really no other option.
I’ll be honest. It wasn’t pretty. We had such fun songs chosen that neither Brady or I could sing anymore, being that neither of us had strong (or any) voices, so we scrapped three fun ones and added an extra to the three we still had. In speaking further with some of the people at church, it was suggested that we have a bit more congregational singing, so we added a few to the list last minute that we hadn’t even had a chance to run through. By the end of our first chunk of practice, we had to save our voices. So when the service began, I admitted to the congregation that neither of us had voices, so we needed loud powerful singing from them, and they delivered. I’m not sure we’ve ever led an entire morning by just singing the first line of every verse of a song, but it worked. Again, not pretty, but no one seemed too upset about it. Sickness happens, and we are prone to a lot of it! People lovingly thanked us and supported us afterwards, which always helps, especially when the whole thing felt klutzy and thrown together. Thank you, beautiful church, for taking us as we are!!
This morning was one more commitment for the season that we can cross off the list! There are still a couple small ones left but they’re pretty minimal 🙂 We are getting closer and closer to the Christmas break, and I am very much looking forward to it. Hopefully our colds will be gone for Christmas since we’re having them in advance. 🤞