Monday 2nd June

Choirs and Churches

A few weeks ago when we had our day trip to London,Bex and I were in need of some peace and quiet from the hurly burly fumed filled tube stations and bustling shoppers. Certainly by the afternoon the excitement of being in the Capital was wearing decidedly thin, and so quite by chance we happened upon a lovely church in Bow Lane, just down from St Pauls Cathedral. 

It was called St Mary Aldermary Church:

St Mary Aldermary is an Anglican church in Bow Lane in the City of London. Of medieval origin, it was rebuilt from 1510. Badly damaged in the Great Fire of London in 1666, it was rebuilt once more, this time by Sir Christopher Wren, unlike the vast majority of his City churches in a Gothic style.

Guild Church of St. Mary Aldermary

It had a blackboard outside welcoming us in with the lure of coffee and homemade cakes, and free wifi!! Plus we found out upon entering, comfy sofas, and best of all PEACE!

I'm now on their twitter feed, and was very comforted to read this prayer, I shall just print off the first half....

Reinhold Niebuhr

Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;

This blog got started early this afternoon, and now I'm trying to finish it off its gone 9:30pm and I need to eat some supper, especially as I have to fast for 6 hours before the scan...... I feel a midnight feast coming on!

As for the choir bit of the title, nothing to do with the aforementioned Church I'm afraid, but with Rising Voices choir. You've heard of the "Rhythm of Life" ? Well, I was attempting to 'sing' it at practice last Wednesday, and as I can't read music, or actually sing it was proving somewhat tricky. A few of us were in the 'middle' section and singing slightly different parts from the two groups either side of us. It's fair to say we got in a bit of a muddle, none of us being very strong or good singers. 

Anyway, suddenly everyone was singing the last three notes, "Life, Life, Life" and we simultaneously realised that not only were we a bit behind them all, we were actually THREE PAGES behind !!!!!!!