[rodgersorganusers] A Thought About 'Pleasing Folks'

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Please do not consider what I wish to share as being spoken from a pulpit, 
high and lifted up, or in any pompous fashion (not that pulpits -- placed low 
or 
high merit a negative metaphor).

We often hear or see a phrase similiar to, if not this one indeed: "you 
cannot please everyone all the time." This causes me to pause and remember 
words of 
wisdom spoken by many more than one of my teachers, instructors and 
professors over many years of study, practice, and presentation (notice, 
please, I did 
NOT say "performance"). They go something like this:

    "In church music, it is not 'the people' whom we are to please, for they 
are not an audience waiting eagerly for our productions.  In church music, it 
is our Maker whom we are to laud, magnify, lift up, assist others (and 
ourselves) in bringing lives worthy of worship and praise to the Altar and 
place them 
at the feet of our ever-present, always-loving Creator."

Brothers and Sisters:  let us NOT please one another. Let us worship the very 
GOD who sustains us with life and breath - and assist (not make) others 
toward that duty and delight.

Dale G. Rider, M. Sacred Mus., CAGO*
Organist (appointed October, 2003)
Northern Boulevard United Methodist Church
Independence, Missouri 64050
Sanctuary Organ - Rodgers 805C Digital Organ 
& Roland PR-300S Sound Module
Member --Volunteer Organ Staff
Community of Christ (ReorganizedLDS) World Headquarters
Independence, Missouri 64051
   Auditorium Organ - AEolian-Skinner (1959) 4m/113 rks 
   Temple Organ - Casavant Freres, Ltd. (1993) 4m/102 rks (tracker) 
Life Member 
Hymn Society in the United States and Canada
*Colleague Certificate; Service Playing Certificate
Greater Kansas City Chapter (Dean, 1982-'83)
American Guild of Organists

GOD bless you today and everyday!



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