"The Thrill of Hope... All Oppression Shall Cease"
I love music of most nearly all genres! My mom, my Piano Teachers: Miss Tinnie Strickland and Charlotte Lyons, her husband, Tommy Lyons, my Music Minister and my High School Choir Director, Barbara Hanning all poured into my life giving me such a love for music. This time of year especially, I find music floods my heart with such JOY! Shouldn't it be that way? Christ the Baby, "born that Mankind no more may die!" " Joy to the World , the Savior reigns!" On a very cold night during World War II, men from very different countries with very opposing viewpoints were once united for a just a few moments while with one voice on Christmas Eve they sang from their frozen trenches Silent Night, Holy Night . All is calm, all is bright. Round yon virgin, mother and child. Holy infant so tender and mild. Sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace. And I will never forget the female voice of one of the 1979 kidnapped Americans who sang these words from Away