Last August, I played the piano for a wedding. For some reason, even though I've been a church pianist for a lot of years, I have never had the opportunity to play the piano for anyone's wedding before. Either we've been in churches that were so small that there wasn't ever anyone who got married, or people who did get married already had musical connections. At any rate, last summer was my first time to do wedding music for anyone.
The coolest thing about it was that it was a Haitian wedding. In Haiti. Les Cayes, Haiti, to be precise. Because I've been going down to Haiti for a few years to teach piano in a music camp, lots of people there know me. A couple was getting married in a big church in Cayes that week, and the "famous" Madame Rick (that's me) was in town, so they asked me to play. Absolutely one of the highlights of my life!
Then this afternoon I got a phone call from Tim, the leader of SoulFire. His boss, who also goes to our church, is getting married right around Memorial Day and wanted to know if I would be willing to play for the wedding! Stuff like that really makes me happy. My church continues to be a "happy place" for me... God knew that my life this year would be really hard, and He gave me a church which has enfolded around me and given me a happy respite from stress. I am very, very thankful.
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