An Inkling
Over the
years I’ve sung in choirs from time to time.
When I do, I try to sit next to someone in the bass section who is good
at staying on pitch. Even with my eyes
on the music, my voice wanders at points, and it’s wonderfully helpful to have
someone who is pitch perfect nearby to pull me back on.
Have you
noticed that in the Christian chorus there is only One who is pitch
perfect? Even with the biblical score
right under our noses, and even with practice and diligent effort, we all
wander off pitch at points. So we need
to make sure we’re seated right next to the Savior whose pitch is unfailingly
perfect.
I was led
to these ponderings this week by the visit of the Pope to our shores. He’ll be singing the faith on the grandest of
American stages. And he’s good – really
good. I love the ways this Pope sings
the faith.
Even so, only
the Savior is pitch perfect. So all of
us who love the Savior, and who have been graciously pulled back on tone ourselves,
can pray for the Pope as he boldly sings the faith on those big stages. May he find himself at every moment seated
right next to that One with perfect pitch!
And I for
one am sure that that will be in the bass section! Ha!
God bless
Pope Francis,
Keith
