oh yeah, my concert is tonight

sigh…I suppose it was bound to happen.  Somehow, Levi neglected to inform his loving parents that his 9th grade spring concert was tonight until a few hours before GO time.  He insists that he only learned about it in 7th period today.  I guess that irresponsible choir teacher failed to personally invite Levi, or to announce to the choir that they would be singing tonight.  Good thing that Kim talked to another mom today.  Otherwise we’d have really been scrambling to make it.  The good news: Levi said the choir was on last (band, orchestra, then choir), so we had some time to get the girls ready for the evening.

Oh wait–his text at 7:13 tells me that the choir is on first–in 17 minutes.  Kim was still in the shower…

Good grief, Charlie Brown.

Needless to say there are no pictures of my handsome young son in his dressy clothes, ready to sing some beautiful music.

I guess there will be days like this.  He’s really been doing well lately, however, in lots of other ways.  Did you notice his absence from the pics of Josie’s party?  That’s because he was leading worship for our high school ministry Sunday night.

On the way home from church he asked if he could borrow the bass guitar from the church, and if it was difficult to play.  I told him that it took a certain level of skill and familiarity, and much practice to be a competent bassman.  He said that he wanted to play bass and sing lead.  For worship.  That night.

I told him that I didn’t think he could pull it off, but we went to get the bass, printed off the charts, and sat in his room for a while working on the bass lines.  I was surprised at how easily he figured things out.  He’s got some musical ability, that one.  As he was going out the door, I apologized for not being more of a believer in him, and we hugged it out.

A couple of the adult leaders told me later that he did a wonderful job Sunday night.  Not only did he play bass and sing, but he actually led the team and the students in worship.  Very cool…

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