Our Own Orchestra

Today, I woke up late due to my intensive practice last night for our special number this A.Y. program. As usual, I went to church and attended the sabbath school and divine worship program. After that, we went home to have our lunch.

After eating, I practiced together with my sister, who is playing the organ, and my cousin, who is playing the flute. Together, we formed our own orchestra. Then after a 15-minute practice, we headed to the church to attend our choir's practice. We sang the song:"Seek ye the Lord", and had some vocalizations. It took us an hour to master it. Then after that, we were supposed to practice once more but we ended up playing different songs, not the one we are supposed to practice. Then I easily got exhausted and rested for awhile.

While sitting, I hit the microphone and it suddenly fell. As I was reaching it, my violin suddenly fell. It was quite a shock. I hurriedly took my violin, and looked if there were cracks caused by the fall. Fortunately, I found nothing but just saw that the bridge was removed.I tried to put it back, thinking everything will be alright. But, it won't fit, so I was forced to loosen the tuning pegs for me to be able to put the bridge back in place.

Then, when it was in place, finally, I tried to have them tuned. Good thing Kuya Eric, our pianist was there and Kuya MJ, another music expert was there as well. They were the ones who helped me out have my violin tuned. But, while tuning the G-string, the string suddenly snapped.

Good thing I always have my extra strings with me in case of emergencies just like this one. I put it out and replaced the broken string. And later on, my violin which was once broken, is now back to normal once again. I was able to practice before the program started.

Then after the singspiration, prayer, and bible game, it is now our time to perform. Before performing, i had a short prayer thanking God for everything and asking for his guidance. We went out there ready to share the blessing we had received through music.

Though I had a couple of mistakes, I feel truly blessed because despite all of these that has happened to me for this day, God still gave me a chance to serve him and share what I have through music. I feel happy after the performance because I did my very best and I know that god was listening to the song we offer him with.