Music, at least good music, takes its listeners on a journey. Most songs start small. They grow and shrink and grow again, leading the ear towards a pinnacle, a crescendo, that prepares the listener for what must be the ultimate end. If it’s a really good song it makes us long to hear more.

I am learning that there is a musical nature to the processes of community living. Those who are listening carefully can hear a song beginning in our community. It’s not a real song of course, it’s a process. But just like a really good song this process in our community has started small.

This weekend our town Parks and Rec Committee held a free community day based around the theme INTERNATIONAL

It was not very well attended, but it was fun!

THERE WERE GAMES FROM AROUND THE WORLD AND A TEA PARTY FOR THE KIDS.

Actually because the crowd size was small I sat and had tea ( it was mango juice, but the English accent Rajuli used as she served into the tiny paper tea cups held the atmosphere for me).

The director of the Parks and Rec Committee introduced me to one of the point people for the Winchendon Commission on Disability. We had tea…err mango juice together. It was fascinating to speak with my new acquaintance. We made small talk about the town. That turned to the people we knew in common and a rising sense of hope we both feel about what is happening in our little community. Then we went deeper and talked about the mindset that has helped her to maintain a mindset of abundance through her progressive disability. She told me that for her she does not look at her illness like a fight or a battle. She sees it more as a wave. She sees her job as accepting the power of the wave and using that power to her advantage by seeing what the wave is bringing her towards. Like I said fascinating and faith building!

THERE WAS ALSO MUSIC

AND OF COURSE THINGS TO EAT AND THINGS TO BUY.

After I spent some money here I went downtown to a music launch party for one of our church’s worship leaders. He has just put out two singles and is beginning to build his ministry platform.

Nothing we are doing is big yet, but what is happening in our community process is building to a crescendo. I am so excited about the song God is singing over us. It is a process of blessing and I can’t wait to hear more!

The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.” Zephaniah 3:17

WHAT DO YOU SEE GOD DOING?