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Working together to praise the Creator
A music teacher and a first-grader collaborate to create a short liturgy.
I teach music. I love music and feel like everyone in the world should love music as much as I do. Little did I know that it is impossible to make kids love music as much as I do. Some days, it feels impossible to get them even to like music.
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One day, feeling a little discouraged after a tough music class, I was leaving school when Sam, a first grader, stopped me in my tracks. “Hi, Mrs. Fedke!” He had a grin on his face the size of Texas. I said hello back and gave him a high five.
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Then he said, “Do you want to know something?” He was so excited he could hardly keep it in. “When I go home every day, I write hymns!”
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When Dan Horner stepped inside of St. John’s, New Ulm, Minn., as an adult, he remembered being there before. His family had brought him to be baptized as a child, and he had attended worship with them. He also had been a student at St. Paul's Lutheran . . .
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“Then one of the elders asked me, ‘These in white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?’ I answered, ‘Sir, you know.’ And he said, ‘These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the . . .
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People of my generation will tell you they can pinpoint where they were on Nov. 22, 1963, when they heard the shocking news that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. I was a third grader, putting on my jacket at the end of a school day, when . . .
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