[Magdalen] Update (was Prayer request)

[Suzie Buchanan]

Kristin,
I am so glad to read about how well all this has gone.  And I'm still
looking forward to when I get a chance to come down to take you and Heather
to lunch or some such fun thing.

Susan

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Kristin Rollins <kristin at verumsolum.com>
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
>
> --
>   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
>