Making a Joyful Noise

Allison Clare has a new CD of kids' Christian music. It's got lots of songs that I remember from Vacation Bible School, and she and I were belting out "Do, Lord" together--"Do, Lord, oh do Lord, oh do remember me, waaaay beyooooond the blue!"

Gillian looked up at us grimly, shook her head, and gave us her review of our performance: "No blue. No sing."

But AC is, as always, undeterred, even when she doesn't quite have the lyrics right. She sings with great verve: "I've got a piece of Jesus in my heart" and "This little light of mine, I'm going to lady-shine, lady-shine."*

*"The peace" and "let it shine," for those who didn't grow up Baptist.