Yesterday, my church celebrated its women with a special service organized by and featuring women.
My daughter sang a solo as “special music” at the service’s beginning. We decided on Christian kids’ music classic, “I’ve Got the Joy.” I added the occasional, “Where?!?” and sang with her on the chorus.
She was fantastic. She sang with legitimate joy and expressed the necessary winsome antagonism in the famous third verse: “If the devil doesn’t like it, he can sit on the tack!”
We have a video from when my daughter was young singing the song this way: “And if the devil doesn’t like it, he can sit on the couch!” Whether she’s singing about a tack or couch, she’s used this song to share God’s joy. That was no less true yesterday.
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