If you didn’t know it, I work the sound board for our church. It isn’t my favorite thing to do in this world, but I seem to have a knack for it and not many people know how to do it. It’s one of those things that you do as a service even though you don’t have a passion for it. I guess it’s missing that creative process that I desire. So when the pastor asked me to make a CD of Ellen, to CREATE something as a memorial for her, I was honored… and excited to be creating something that will hopefully be important to her family. One thing scared me.
Ellen never sang very loud. She sang with passion, but her voice was never overpowering. Her testimony sounded great, but I was terrified that I wouldn’t be able to find songs where you could hear her. When I heard it live, I always had a hard time hearing her voice. Honestly, I don’t feel I ever did a great job of raising her volume up. I was afraid we’d lost her voice because of my poor job.
Small miracles are amazing. They aren’t “Red Sea” things. They aren’t “Lazarus” things. They are the things that could easily be explained away. But I won’t do that this time. The first CD I pulled, our of over 40, had three songs on it… each with Ellen’s voice shining through.