How amazing is God's grace!

July 19, 2012- by Penny Cox, chaperone

How amazing is God's grace!  Music is food for the soul!

The temperature is cool enough that we can sleep with our windows open.   Your Christ Church Cathedral choristers and chaperones are waking each morning around 6:00 a.m. to the quite peaceful sounds of birds in the field near our Travel Lodge. The daily morning ritual begins with breakfast at the Little Chef.  Since we're on day six of our journey, the wait staff know many of us by name. They greet us warmly as the Kentucky choir singing at Ely Cathedral.  The mission of outreach from Lexington is felt in this small restaurant.

The voices of choristers rehearsals brings a chill to our body as the music reverberates from the holy walls from within the Cathedral.  It is difficult to express the joy that these sounds bring to the regular parishioners and to the tourist visitors.  You can be proud of the ambassadors from our Lexington Diocese.  The imagery of the delicate English architecture and chapels are some of the most elaborate and extraordinary carvings one could see.  We are lighting a candle daily to keep our CCC congregation uplifted in prayer.

Thursday we travelled by bus to West Stow, an original AngloSaxon Village that was discovered and archeologically excavated in the late 1970's.  Rain fell continuously during the bus ride from Ely to West Stow.    We were prepared with our "wellies" to walk through the mud!  However, as the bus pulled into the drop-off spot, the sun shone through the clouds and the rain stopped.  We gave thanks to God for the sunshine. The archeological experiments at West Stow used replica building materials to reconstruct thatch-roofed buildings that took us back to a way of living 1200 years ago.  We saw crops, pigs, chickens, roosters living in the country park that gave the children a glimpse at the hardships that ancestors endeared.  I know many of you enjoy seeing the photographs that are being posted by the adult choir members.

We continued to be humbled by all the blessings that we have both received and provided during our journey to share God's message through the joy sounds of music.  Please keep us in your prayers.