You work with what you have

I’ve felt quite guilty about my inexperience as regarding Sacred Music:

• I’m a convert to Catholicism, so I have no first-hand knowledge before about 1980.
• I didn’t know chant until I started with this schola about five years ago.
• I didn’t know Latin, and my knowledge is still quite sketchy.

I’ve realized that this is just a part of the human condition – especially for me, because I like to be in situations where I’m learning.

If I’m learning, then by definition I didn’t know it before.  Duh.

So any embarrassment over my inexperience is really just a manufactured story that I’m telling myself.  The fact that I have the opportunity to interact with people who are SO much more expert is great, because that’s the way I’ll learn something new.

And I just work with what I have now.  I have lots of resources, I have my own passion, I have the support of a lot of other people.

You know what?  That’s plenty.  Fantastic, even.