Jesus Came to Band Practice

I received a text message from my mom during FCA this past Thursday telling me that Jesus had come to band practice that night. Now I had no idea what she was talking about. So I sent her a message back asking if this was a man dressed as Jesus for the every-other-year play my home church puts on called "Easter Alive" because this is a Methodist church on a Thursday night and nothing else is really going on at this time. I get an email from her the following morning and this is what it said:

We were practicing "You Raise Me Up" by Josh Groban for Michelle to sing for the first time this Sunday. Verne was making the violin sounds from his keyboard and Michelle is doing a fantastic job with the vocals. We practiced this song for 45 minutes and felt pretty good about it, but we were thinking that a real violin player would be nice and moved on to the next song - Enough. We were struggling with "you are more than enough", when a guy with a violin walks into the Chapel and sits down. I looked at Debbie and she said it must be a friend of Verne's.

After we finished Enough, Verne walks over to him and says, "Would you like to play with us?", but no one knew who he was. So Elliott (the lead singer of the praise band) introduced him to everyone and he played You Raise Me Up and Amazing Grace – My Chains Are Gone to the point of goose bumps.

Jesus truly came to band practice and is definitely more than enough.

-Charron Conley