Another Night Rehearsal

Just a little and I would have stayed back from another song rehearsal. And it's not because I honestly didn't wanna attend but because I had numerous tasks placed before me that I needed to tackle and had to finish at all cost. I had a deadline for all these tasks and sadly, as we speak, I am yet to complete those tasks but the good news is that I didn't stay back from the rehearsal as imagined earlier yesterday evening.
The more disheartening thing is that I had two different choir rehearsals to attend; one of which was in my local church slated from 6 PM to 8 PM and another which was in the national, starting from 9 PM and running through the night until morning. Yes, the second was an all-night rehearsal and this was already making me sad somehow because of the things I needed to do and the time at which both events were fixed.

I didn't wanna be absent from either of the two song rehearsals and I just couldn't make any excuse for not being present even if I had a valid excuse, I didn't wanna put myself in that shoe or place of staying back because of the task I had at hand.
I promised myself I was gonna attend both rehearsals and then deny myself the rest and sleep later in the morning to complete the unfinished tasks I left behind. Though I was greatly disturbed about the whole thing, but I just couldn't risk being absent.
6 PM met me at my work desk, so I hurriedly shut down my PC and quickly had my evening shower, and headed over to the church to be a part of the choir and song rehearsal. The song treated, though a new one but was quite simple and easy to memorize and flow with the harmony and melody lines. We were about to wrap it up by past 8 PM and that's because we took a few extra minutes to do a dress praise session.

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There was no point going back to the house again and then getting set for the second song rehearsal since the time was fast ticking already and I had to move to the location where the second rehearsal was held.
After some minutes of trying to get to the location with a friend, we finally arrived, and the night event had already kicked started before we even got there. We both grabbed our seats and was ready for the long fun night.

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For the second part of the song rehearsal, we had about six (6) songs to rehearse, and they were all successfully rehearsed and the melody line was rightly sung with the help of the instrumentalists.
Though at some point we all got really tired and sleepy coupled with the fact that most of us had a really long day so we actually sacrificed our sleep, and our rest to be in God's presence doing what we love doing for the kingdom of God which is singing.
It takes a determined soul to deprive himself or herself of sleep, and rest, and spend those hours of the night awake singing and rehearsing songs.

Music ministry as every other ministry requires a lot of sacrifices and self-denial of certain things, certain pleasures to make it work or be what it should be.
And cheating ourselves and nature is one of the numerous sacrifices one has to make if any music group or organization must grow. Though it's painful most times but we gotta do what we gotta do to keep the music ministry alive and moving.

My eyes are weary and very heavy as I write this, hopefully, I would get to have some rest or sleep but that would be after I might have completed the tasks I have at hand which I left off yesterday to be in the song rehearsals.

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