[Magdalen] Update (was Prayer request)

[Marion Thompson]

Hurray!  Well done!

Marion, a pilgrim    ... today my sail I lift ....
On 1/6/2015 4:40 PM, Kristin Rollins wrote:
> 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
>