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Article: What We Can Do Is Sing.
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- Spirituality & Health Magazine
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- November 1, 2008
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by Larry Patten
Ihad just been at church. There, the choir sang. Wondrous. A brass quintet played. Glorious. The congregational hymns were loud and jubilant.
Then, after church, I went to visit a patient. I was his hospice chaplain. Led by his daughter, I walked down the narrow hallway of their apartment. Long before I arrived at the patient's room, I heard more music. "The youth group is visiting," the daughter reported.
At the door, I stopped and peered in. Young people were crammed in his room, forming an awkward line that extended from the door, past the large bed centered in the room, and ending by the hospital bed where the 66-old-year ...