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Time was when I was a half decent singer. Fifty years ago, I sang tenor and was fortunate to be part of the Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir. This was a valuable source of relaxation for me because, as Curate of an Anglican Church in Poole, ministry life was pretty hectic!<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n On getting through a pretty rigorous audition I attended the first rehearsal of the new season, but was in for a terrible shock! I was in high spirits as I entered the rehearsal room and selected the first piece indicated by the chorus master. I’d never seen or heard the piece before. The chorus master got our attention \u2026 and we were away! At any rate, they were away: cantering along at a rate of knots while I was still at the starting gate! It was the same with each piece we did. I was left burbling like an idiot while the rest of them went for it with such gusto that I was convinced they had sung the pieces a dozen times before. They had not.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n It\u2019s not easy following Jesus, yet we have been given all we need to do so Time was when I was a half decent singer. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chris-hill","tag-12-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}