I'm told that as a small toddler my attention was kept by a baggie of puffed rice. I'd stick my hand in and grab some, and shove my whole hand in my mouth. Then, retrieving more puffed rice with a slobbery hand was easy... and quiet too. Mom was pretty smart.
Some of my oldest and fondest church memories were of falling asleep with my head on my Mom’s lap during Sunday night service, tracing in her Bible’s maps section the wanderings of the Children of Israel in the Wilderness, and later, practicing my music sight-reading in service by singing a different SATB part on each of the four verses of the hymn. None of that was particularly spiritual but it provided a heritage in me which survives to this day.
I'm told that as a small toddler my attention was kept by a baggie of puffed rice. I'd stick my hand in and grab some, and shove my whole hand in my mouth. Then, retrieving more puffed rice with a slobbery hand was easy... and quiet too. Mom was pretty smart.
Some of my oldest and fondest church memories were of falling asleep with my head on my Mom’s lap during Sunday night service, tracing in her Bible’s maps section the wanderings of the Children of Israel in the Wilderness, and later, practicing my music sight-reading in service by singing a different SATB part on each of the four verses of the hymn. None of that was particularly spiritual but it provided a heritage in me which survives to this day.
CWM means common white meter. In other words you clap on the first and third beat not on the second and fourth.