How Choir is like Our Faith

1. Sometimes we get lost.
In our faith journey, sometimes we lose track of ourselves. We feel like everyone knows exactly what they are doing, but we get lost. In the same way, we think our choir directors won’t know we are lost, we convince ourselves that God won’t realize that we are lost. Believe me, they do. They both do, and if we were only to ask for help, we could get back on track.

2. The man or woman in charge always knows.
In our faith journeys, we sometimes think, “He won’t hear me. God won’t hear me. I’m only one person in between so many others”. Trust me, if a choir director knows exactly who is singing a different vowel from everyone else while listening to 20+ people singing different parts and melodies, God will be able to hear your prayers. However, we have to be willing to listen and correct ourselves when we get a response.

3. You have to plan.
In choir, you have to “hear” the note before you sing it. Weird, right? It’s like that experiment where you read different things in your head while thinking of different accents, and then, whatever you read sounds like it is being read in the accent even though no one is speaking. When you are going to sing a note, you have to “hear” it before you can sing it. In our faith journey, if we do not take a minute to hear and listen to what God wants from us, then we are far less likely to do His will.

4. We have to listen to each other.
Sometimes in our faith journey, we realize that there are people of our same faiths and religions that think and look at things in different ways. We are surprised when we don’t immediately “click” with those people even if we believe in the same things. We have to be open to listen and realize that our way of loving God is not the only way to love God. In choir, our way to sing a vowel is not the only way to sing a vowel. If we don’t listen to each other in choir, our sound will not blend well. If we don’t listen to other ways people love God, we might never realize things about our own relationship with God.

5. We are all a family.
No matter how many choirs I’ve been in, choir always end up being a second family. In a similar way, people who share your faith are also your family. You’ll mess up, and you will see others mess up. Seeing others do better will make you glad, and if you seek help or get close to those who know what they are doing you’ll be okay. We’re all in this together.