Lift Up Your Voice And Sing

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That daughter of mine…

Can sing…has pipes…loved to perform…did theater as a youth…sang at functions with her sisters…

Could hear her singing in the next room…while mama me rested…brought a pang to the heart…missed that voice…missed those times…

Was a singer too…back in the day…played Amahl…in Amahl and the Night Visitors…have a degree…in vocal music performance…

Sang in the church choir…lead Bible School music…directed a youth choir…playing piano and singing…was therapeutic…

And then…life got busy…hoarseness set in…had it checked out…but didn’t really follow through…and then…the voice…was gone…

Can’t sing at all…play piano and sing in the head…but wish…busy me…had fought a little harder…not to lose…something…so important…

And so it is…oh friends of mine…don’t let life…get in the way…of that which makes you happy…bike…sew…do what it is…you love to do…

Lift up your voice…and sing…
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And that daughter of mine…agrees…