Monday, July 14, 2008

Welcome To The Fold!


To some people, Kingsfold is the name of the melody to a church hymn, 'I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say.' To others it is the town in which they live: Kingsfold, in Surrey, England.

Actually, those two are related in that Ralph Vaughan Williams actually named the tune after the village!

To my wife and I, the "Kings", it is the name of our little company. We chose the name because of it's link to church music (our profession) and also to the fact that the same tune is expressed in the Irish tune 'Star of the County Down' (we're from Ireland and Irish Music is our 'other' profession).

But apart from encompassing our musical schizophrenia, it also encapsulates our 'philosophy'. All that we do is about people. Whether they are the people we minister to, the people we drive to drink on an occasional Saturday night (I guess that is a kind of ministry too!), or they are customers, students, friends . . . we think of them as being part of our "Fold" - our family, our court, our fortress, our dear ones. They are the folks who make life worth living and make our lives possible. If you are still here on Paragraph 4, then you also qualify to be in the King's Fold.

Come back, cross the fence, and visit every now and then, if only to see if my actions are capable of living up to my procrastinations! They say that one person's boring life is another person's ambition, or at least their entertainment. Otherwise, why is Reality TV so popular?

Well if that is true for you good luck to you and God bless you!

I'm thankful you bothered!

Till the next time, friends!

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