Work

As a new writer to the site - one who isn't actually in the choir - I'm always trying to expand my vision to what this work is really all about.  And there it was - work.  What an all-encompassing word. Such a mundane hard labor, sweat of the brow, hands in in the dirt kind of word - yet linked to art and emotion at it's very core. Paintings and sculptures of particular beauty are called works of art, actors acclaimed in a play do great work, composers title their major compositions "opus" (latin for work).  Gloriæ Dei is all about the work.  Not (only) what it takes to learn and breathe new life to every piece they perform - but the work God does in each one of them as they give themselves to the process. And in turn, the work God does in all those who hear their music.
"....being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."     Phil 1:6