Incredible!

 I hope you don't think this is just another rant of mine, but I have to share with you one of the most incredible moments of this past week.

For the past couple of years, our school children have done a few musicals on our gymnasium stage.  They worked very hard on all of the performances I've been privileged to see.  Two plays ago, it was High School Musical Jr., last year they did Annie, and this year they performed Frozen.  Of course they did not memorize the WHOLE movies each year.  They were hour-long performances.  All of them have been amazing.  There is SO much talent in our school.

When I was in grammar school, I only remember being in one of these sorts of plays.  It was more historical in nature, not a feature film.  Maybe I only remember it because I had a specific role to play -- I was Lyndon Baines Johnson taking the oath of office of the presidency of the United States.  What was missing from my recollection of history was that I was being sworn in after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.  It's amazing how pieces of history like that are left out of the conversation when preparing to memorize the oath of office.  I don't even know if I had a Bible to put my hand on.  I only remember having a microphone in one hand and looking at the audience from the stage.

The children of our school are talented.  Something that impressed me was that we don't actually have the best quality sound system in the gym.  The parents rented equipment for the performance.  Yet, even with better equipment, not everything was perfect.  There were times when the sound would cut out on a child singing.  The amazing piece?  They never missed a beat.  They kept singing regardless of what they could hear.  It was top-notch.  And that could even be said of children as young as 5th grade.  Simply wonderful!