Senior Post: Michelle Sander

Hey everyone, its Michelle Sander. It’s strange to be blogging about my last ministry tour, but the good thing is that it’s been a great one. Every single individual in this choir has something special that they bring to the table, and I have gotten the amazing chance to get to know them on a deeper level. We’ve had a lot of fun this tour, but also have been touched in many different ways over the course of this tour. As we sang in Montréal in the basilica we were about to sing our last song and this woman comes up to Mrs. P and starts asking her a question, but that was not the strange part the strange part was she was holding a glass hippo. Than Mrs. P tells us how this lady along with a few other friends all made a trip to Canada to honor their friend who died of breast cancer and wanted to make the trip before she died but was not able to. They carried her ashes inside of the hippo, because she loved hippos and collected them all her life. Immediately you look around and just see tears in people’s eyes because to share such a personal thing with us really touched us. We sang Amazing Grace in honor of her, and to see the way it moved them was amazing. Personally, it touched me because their friendship with their friend and the way they wanted to honor her reminds me of the friendships I have made in Eagles Wings. Eagles wings has filled my life with joy and happiness and the friends I have made are irreplaceable. We all share a bond with God and with each other and that’s what makes these trips so unique for every individual. As senior vespers draw nearer and I think about tonight; the crying and sadness I think about yes we may be sad but I take joy in knowing that hopefully I have touched people the way that past seniors have touched my life. Leaving this chapter in my life is heart wrenching and will honestly be the hardest thing I will ever do, I am leaving a family. A family who accepts me and loves me and takes me for who I am. So coming away from this tour I have hope and joy that kids in years to come will come away from their senior year not regretting a thing and with the friendships and experiences that I have. This choir is more than just a choir to me, it’s a family, a family that I must leave to allow others to take away what I have in these past four years. I love each and every one of you with all my heart, thank you for everything.