The Kyries

[flaglady]

Oh, another thing - I wanted to have a cd of the track split up into managable slices and though I've done a bit of music editing, I've never tackled anything like this before.



But I had a go on my Roxio media suite and managed it today! Now I have a cd - complete with label - with 11 mini tracks that are small pieces of the whole song. Now, with the help of a remote control, I can focus on one portion of the song for the rehearsals.



What's that old saying about necessity being the mother of invention? Seems it's also the mother of learning!!



Wahey!! :twirl: :twirl: :linedance:

[flaglady]

Well, folks, we had our second rehearsal yesterday and now I'm really panicking! Still only six volunteers but we had the local paper come and take a photo which will be in tomorrow hopefull, asking for more volunteers as well as promoting the whole festival. But the thing itself is developing slowly - too slowly for my tasted! I keep wanting to shout at the ladies "No, no, no! Not like that - like this! Instead I manage to smile and be encouraging while I correct them. It's tough! I just hope I'm up to this though I sometimes wonder if I've bitten off more than I can chew!!! Still, a good friend said, when I said this to him, "Great, that means there's plenty of room for God to act!"



Amen!



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[HelenaZF]

Somehow, these things never proceed without a series of challenges...but it's great that you are getting media coverage. Praying the the right people hear the Word and respond.



Psalm 103:3 Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy majesty, from the womb of the dawn; your young men will come to you like the dew.

[flaglady]

Thanks for your words of encouragement, Helena. It really means a lot to me! noopy:

[flaglady]

Had another rehearsal with my principal dancer this afternoon. She's really coming along fine despite my limitations as a teacher and my limitations vis a vis my bad knee!



Today I had to demonstrate a move where the dancer turns with flag outstretched then spins and finishes with just turning the flag overhead. Whilst trying to do that, my knee started hurting and after that I couldn't do much! But she was really getting it and by the end of the session, we'd pretty much done the whole song.



Then I limped home!



Please tell me, how does someone 'train' a dancer when you've 1. got no dancing or teaching background and 2. can't even walk properly!!



I suppose, as one friend remarked, what I can't do leaves a lot of room for God to act!! Yay!!! noopy:

[flaglady]

I just felt compelled to share this with you all - and please dont think I'm boasting or anything, I'm really rejoicing in the blessing I have received from the Lord. I never cease to be amazed at the things He has revealed to me in and through flag worship.



A couple of days ago I had the second rehearsal with my principle dancer for the Kyries. She's getting on really, really well and especially considering she's not a trained dancer or anything like. But she seems to be going all out for what I'm trying - in my amateurish way - to explain to her.



Well, one maneouvre calls for her to do fast pirouettes and I was finding it very difficult to stop her using the flag like a horse whip. I kept trying to tell her, spin fast but use the flag more gently. She is beginning to get it but upon reflection over yesterday and today, I realised a somewhat significant fact; the Lord has blessed me with the ability to 'feel' the fabric of the flag almost as an extention of my own arm. I can make it do things - curling around my body, fluttering down from a height, swirling around - and I realise I don't actually think about doing it, any more than I think about using my arm when I wave to someone, or placing my feet when I walk.



Don't you think that that is truly amazing? How God can take this great, lumpen, untrained woman and make a artistic feature out of her?



On the other hand - nothing is impossible for Him and I think that this truly proves it!



O, I do so love using and worshipping Him with flags!!!!! :twirl: :twirl: :twirl:

[HelenaZF]

That story shows me that you also have a gift for teaching, as you are able to isolate the things that give you the movements you envision. And not only that, but a gift to describe them in a way that can be grasped. And who says a great, lumpen woman can't be an artistic feature! The culture, that is who.



I'll tell you a story about a dutch woman who was part of the volunteer staff for the Feast celebration in Jerusalem. She was enormous in body, so much so that she could barely walk. The Lord spoke to her that she was one of His dancers. When she shared that revelation with other skilled and beautiful dancers she was working with, you can imagine what kind of reaction she got. But she knew that the Lord had spoken to her, so she began to pray.



She started to see pictures of an altar and an incense bowl, and as she prayed and worshipped, she moved the only part of her body that she could still control with grace--her arms and hands. She began to put together worship pieces. She would beautifully garment her upper body. She would come and sit behind a small altar that she had carefully adorned with whatever was needed for interpreting the song. And she danced with her hands--incredibly graceful, incredibly moving, and incredibly anointed. People forgot that she was stationary, the mass of her body hidden behind the altar, and were mesmerized and ministered to by her dancing hands. And I'm sure God thinks she is every bit as beautiful a worshipper as the young, lithe ballerinas who had trouble restraining their disbelief when she had announced her call to the dance.

[DeanZF]

And your concern reminds me of another couple of large folks.



First, I'm a pretty large man. I can move fairly well, though certainly not a dancer. I could be very self-conscious if it were not for the things that Father has done in me. The major thing that He impressed on me was that so long as I am moving at His direction and for His glory, most folks would never see me, or at least not the physical dimension of me. That has proven to be so.



It is one of those forever things that there are those in the skinny ranks who sniff and lift their eyebrows when folks of size want to offer their bodies as living sacrifices. Sometimes the skinnies forget that they are not the only ones who desire to offer honor to the King. We were in the midst of yet another round of that "discussion" in one venue when we were at a worship symposium where a short but stout woman began to move with flags, :flag: along with a very gifted young mime. She led, he followed, and the earth moved. It was breath-taking. Joan moved with grace and skill, and most importantly, the anointing of our God. Her obedience and presence shattered the "skinnies-only-syndrome" for a lot of folks in leadership, both in movement and in parish leadership.



Don't fret the size thing. Just so long as it's for Him, and at His behest, you shan't be noticed at all. That's a good thing! All to Him, m'dear, all to Him.

[flaglady]

Don't fret the size thing. Just so long as it's for Him, and at His behest, you shan't be noticed at all. That's a good thing! All to Him, m'dear, all to Him

Oh, I don't - not really! I think I just mention it to belay others' thinking on it! And I really don't care what people think about me or what I do because I'm doing it for HIM and He knows it's beautiful!!



But thank you both for your uplifting and encouraging comments. You really are a blessing!.<IMG content="http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b286/flagady15/smilies/flowerysmile.gif">

[flaglady]

This is a sad, sad day. <IMG content="http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b286/flagady15/smilies/cry3.gif">I've had to cancel this production as I never got the amount of volunteers I needed. I just feel sooo gutted, I can't tell you. The folk I had were all dreadfully disappointed as well.



However, it did occur to me that the rehearsals we've done were all worship so all's not lost. And I'm sure there'll be another opportunity.....