Hiding In The Choir

There is a certain safety in numbers.

I remember singing in several church choirs.

Always fun and mostly amateur, I learned how to sing with others.

Hopefully choirs add scope and some inspiration to those attending.

However, there is a trick one can learn, if one is not too gungho some Sunday.

One can coast on the strength of other choir members, depending on the size of the choir and the amount of prep etc.

I'd say most places I sang were good and most folks equally good.

But, there are times one can slack off or hide in the choir.

Certainly, if one feels one isn't good enough at singing, a congregation member can almost mumble or spout 'la la las', and in the long run that's not a 'sin -s-.

Perhaps I should get to the point and I'm sure you all have guessed -s-.

Hiding in the choir is not a crime or sin.

It might be neglegence, especially if you have committed to serving in shuch an endeavor.

Serving our country takes many forms.

Obviously the military is at best the 'tip of the iceberg'.

What we can do, all of us, is be responsible to and for Freedom.

There is no 'hiding in the choir', thogh some do, for the time being.

That will not last.

One of these days, just as sure as the turning of the Earth, the dawn of a new day, the coming of the New Year, there will be NO place to hide.

Of course, there will be plenty who will shirk their duty. There always have been, always will be.

I'm suggesting those of us awake to tyranny attempt to awake many more. The more the merrier -s-.

Hiding in the choir will be more than unbecoming.

It will be the badge of traitors.

And cowards.

There will be no excuses.

There were none for our ancestors who pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor.

So let it be for us.