I had written a BLOG about counting your blessings. It is a song written by Irving Berlin. I gave you the words and made some comment about it being as good as some of the church songs we sing......Sunday morning as the strains of the offertory began at the piano I recognized the tune immediately! It was the song I had written about in the BLOG! Lynne Lavender had gone to a music shop and had found the sheet music. She had practiced it and it was the offertory. That was a neat surprise and it wasn't out of place (in my thinking). Guess I will have to be a bit careful what I say could be a church song.
That takes me to the most unusual "special" I ever heard at church. We were in the far country of Minnesota, attending a small Baptist church in the city there. The preacher claimed the song would fit his sermon. I hope it did, but I never figured out how. It was that old Hank Williams number..."Your Cheatin' Heart"! He handed the sheet music to the elderly pianist who had never seen it, and probably had never heard it. It was quite a ways beyond awful. "Please, Lynne, not Sunday morning."
