Live From SF

I'm exhausted, so this will have to be a short post...

The conference is blowing my mind. It's about 40 energetic, creative, and bold folks from all over North America (Oklahoma, Vancouver, Indiana, New York, etc.). The content of the talks and the exercises are interesting enough, but then there is the Spirit in which we do them. It's incredibly inspiring and prayerful and playful and supportive. I have many stories to tell. It's revolutionizing my approach to some key aspects of the liturgy--but it will have to wait as I'm increibly tired and have to get up by 6 A.M. to make to Morning Prayer at St. Greg's. BTW, Morning Prayer is compeletely a lay initiative at St. Greg's. They have four to about fourteen people show up every morning to pray--how many parishes can claim that kind of corporate prayerfulness? And tomorrow I'm on to chant the Gospel lesson as the morning reading IMPROVISATIONALLY! We're not talking doing the stardard chant tones from the back of the Altar Book--we're talking about doing sometime much more free-flowing and expressive. And you know what, it feels really, really good. It's incredbily liberating to sing what you feel as you read the words and not be thinking at all about what you are "supposed" to be singing. This is something my voice teacher has been talking about for ages--chant as elevated speech.

Time for bed. It's all blessings. God is good, etc.!

-t