What a Wonderful World
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Nearly every Sunday, I play the piano for services at a small, rural church in the hill town of Worthington, MA. The minister, Reverend Doug Small, is a great advocate for God and for the beauty of music, two reasons why I love to accompany his services. Prior to the service this past Sunday, Rev. Small described to me what he was going to say so I could choose an appropriate piece for the piano solo. Sunday’s theme would be Thanksgiving, for which he’d offer this counsel: “As we approach the holiday, if you cannot find something to be grateful for, just look more deeply.”
I thought, we need a song that celebrates our re-awakened appreciation for life. So that’s what I played—my piano rendition of Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World.”
Happy Thanksgiving!
What are you grateful for? Let us know in the comments.
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I love that song! Thanks Jessica!
What a beautiful rendition, I loved it. Thank You! A few of the things that I am most thankful for are my health and my body’s capacity for strength, exertion and energy, family, clean water, the myriad resources that I use and depend on each day, this website because it has been and continues to open my eyes to so much that is good and possible in this world, the joy of practicing meditation, choosing to be open to consciously evolve, choosing to care for others because I know that I have enough and know that in caring for others I am indeed caring for something much bigger than myself.
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