Healing is so important throughout our lives. Not just physical healing but also emotional healing. We can recover from injuries to our skin but recovering from injuries to our emotions is so much harder. Music has been such a massive help to me when I have gone through some dreadful times. When I lost a close friend a few years ago, I was devastated that he was suddenly gone but he lives on through his music and because of all the mutual friends we had. We still find one of his songs is sung in our regular musical get togethers. Another friend who passed away, also helped me with some songs a few years ago and I still have the music we worked on together. It is a comfort to me.
The song I have chosen this week has great significance for me and as I write this I do indeed have tears streaming down my face. 'Fix You' will be performed by my wonderful choir members at a charity memorial concert that I am organising for March 2023. The person who we will be remembering is Andrew, who helped me so much when I started working with my 'Alive and Singing' community choirs. Without him and his lovely wife, the choirs wouldn't even exist and I would never have had the incredible pleasure of working with and writing for these ensembles. Andrew did so much for me for 5 years. He was lively, active and accomplished at so many things...then he was struck down with terminal cancer. His wife is so very broken by her loss... I wish I could help to fix her. I hope that the concert in Andrew's honour will help her, even if just a little bit.