Going back one thousand years...

Saturday night I, and some of my family members

were transported back 1000 years,

back to the Renaissance era

thanks to South Lafourch High Schools'

drama and choir.

A dinner theater put on my some very talented children,

one being our very own Tedi.

(Last one on right)

Pictures were hard to take and

although I have a few videos of the singing,

they are not the best quality but that's okay

because really, it's one of those things,

"You had to be there"

 The play was based around the meal of garnish hens 

and many other staples found in the period.

These kids did a fantastic job as did their choir and drama teacher, Tansy.

As I sat and enjoyed the whole experience, 

I know the majority of the people there, minds were

on the 20 little first graders who will never have the 

chance to join the drama or choir of their high school.

Their parents will never burst with pride watching them 

do whatever it is they might have done.

 Our Tedi was great, she always is.

She is the type of teen that anyone would want,

good through and through, involved in all things,

works for her own spending money, good grades.

She is not perfect but she is such a lovely little girl.

 Sometimes I just don't know how she does all she does.

I am so darn proud that she calls me Nannie.

During a part in the performance, this beautifully voiced

girl got up to sing a solo.

Oh Holy Night.

As she sang, i listened to this beautiful voice 

and really focused on the words and again,

could only think of the shootings that took the young lives

right from our world, their families.

 When she sang, 

"... Long lay the world in sin and error pining,

til He appeared and the soul felt it's worth

a thrill of hope..."

Oh how sad our God is with the things going on in our world.

I thought maybe it's time he return...

I had trouble holding back tears.

Then she sang the verse that we rarely hear and I didn't even 

know existed, fitting for the night,

"...Truly he taught us to love one another

His law is love and his gospel peace

Chains he shall break, for the slave is our brother

and in His name all oppression shall cease..."

Oh how I hope that is true.

That in His name that town and those families will

find some peace.

The message for the rest of the world...

truly he taught us to love one another...

Thank you to the SL drama and choir club

for all their hard work. This play could not have come at a better

time following the shootings.

Even though it was sad to think of the losses

and everything we seem to do today for enjoyment seems

like we shouldn't because of it,

these children brought us the promise of peace.