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My husband would say I have no music in my life and my reply is that most of the music in my life is the hymns of the church. I have spent so much time in church, beginning from the moment of my birth on an Easter Sunday when my dad was supposed to be at church to the present. As a teenager, I did listen to pop music and the Hit Parade on TV, but there was not music played in my house growing up. There was no prohibition, it just didn't happen. That might have been because my family didn't have a stereo or spend money on records. It was quiet at home and that is what I got used to. For me, Sunday may bring a favorite hymn or a new one for me to sing and to enjoy. I did sing in choir as a youth and teenager, but small churches in rural America or small towns don't have much in the way of choir. Instead, I find the music in my head repeating the words and singing silently from a hymn from the past Sunday in many cases. If nothing grabs me on a particular Sunday, it might continue to be one from the week before. During Lent this year it was from the Marty Haugen Vespers, “Let My Prayers Rise Like Incense Before You.” I don't feel like I have no music. It is just music that I relate to and am connected with. --Carolyn
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