True confession; I enjoy being in control. Perhaps the most difficult experience for choral directors is sitting in a rehearsal…and you’re not in charge! You sit there thinking, “why is she doing this, or why doesn’t he spend more time on this section?” Being in charge brings both joy and frustration.
Walter Brueggemann, in his book, A Way other than Our Own: Devotions for Lent, references Isaiah 55:8-9 when speaking of the struggles the people of Israel had in dealing with wanting to do things their way:
“There is a way into the future of your life, because God is at work doing strange, wondrous things for you and in spite of you, and your job is to get your mind off your ways of need and control, to give your life over to God’s large, hidden way in your life.”-Page 42.