[Magdalen] Update (was Prayer request)

[Kristin Rollins]

All went well.

I avoided correcting the two people who called me by my old name,
because it didn't feel like there was a good way to handle it. (In one
case, it was called from the front of the church to where I was in the
organ loft at the back of the church, thankfully before anybody else had
arrived.) But my connection there is peripheral enough that it is not
surprising that there were people who didn't know.

The playing went OK, even though two of the three hymns were ones with
arrangements better suited to piano than organ, and even with the long
layoff. The nave held everybody, so the only company I had up near the
organ was the rector's wife, and then the chair of the altar guild came
up and sat beside me during the sermon.

But I am definitely relieved to put that "first time" behind me. And I
really need to get over there one of these Sunday mornings, since I'm
not "chained" to St. John's every single Sunday now.

Kristin

-- 
  Kristin Rollins
  kristin at verumsolum.com
  Portsmouth, VA

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015, at 02:04 PM, Kristin Rollins wrote:
> Friends,
> 
> A minor short-term prayer request...
> 
> I got an email earlier today from the rector of our former parish in
> Virginia Beach, asking if I was available for a funeral tomorrow
> afternoon. (I have continued to play for funerals, etc. there, when
> their organist can not disentangle himself from his day job.)
> 
> This will be the first time I have played the organ since leaving my
> position in Portsmouth in mid-November, and the first time with people
> knowing me as Kristin. And it will be the first time I visit that church
> since the name change. The last time I visited there, I attended a
> midweek eucharist and afterwards came out to the rector there and told
> him that I had announced my resignation earlier that week. (So it helped
> that we had touched base on the subject, so that we didn't need to sort
> that out with a funeral barely 24 hours away. And that conversation,
> combined with his email being addressed to Kristin, led me to be able to
> respond positively and quickly.)
> 
> On the more comfortable side, unlike St John's, the organ at Old
> Donation is in a gallery above the back of the church, so there is less
> of the feeling of being "on display" at the front of the church
> (especially since I don't own vestments so will either need to borrow a
> set or play in whatever I am wearing). And now, I will need to consider
> my clothes and decide which would be most appropriate for a funeral. Oh
> yes, and also find where my organ shoes and Hymnal are! (Either in the
> bag they were brought home in on my final day or still in one of our
> vehicles.)
> 
> Kristin
> 
> -- 
>   Kristin Rollins
>   kristin at verumsolum.com
>   Portsmouth, VA