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Greetings from Southern Harmony!

Last month was a great one for us. There's not a whole lot that I can tell you about Southern Harmony this month but I do have a few thoughts that have come to mind during those wee hours of the morning driving our bus from venue to venue. I was coming out of Mississippi the other night and while listening to a radio program , this gentleman was talking about where have all the men gone. Being a man, this caught my ear. He was giving various statistics of some type of survey indicating a lot of men now days could not perform simple tasks such as changing an automobile tire, checking oil levels and doing a vast number of tasks around home. Of course as well as you know, a large percentage of our country has changed from a manufacturing workplace to a service orientated workplace. In my opinion, this may be the reason this gentleman had the views he had.

This triggered a thought to me "Where has the Spirit Gone"? Being in gospel music for over 30 years, never accomplishing a lot of notoriety in our industry, I have always been involved in our music. I guess you could say in a seen and not heard position. I think Southern Gospel music is the best style of music God has created on this earth. I have had the pleasure of attending 26 National Quartet Conventions and I was fortunate to meet a lot of the gospel music legends in our industry. I really admire our forefathers of southern gospel music and the sacrifice they have made to pave the road for us. Please do not misunderstand me when I say I've been sitting on the sidelines watching; when in fact, I have been on the sidelines working everyday of my life since I have been in southern gospel music making our ministry a success. But as I think back of the years in Nashville of when I attended the National Quartet Convention, those early years bringing back some very good memories. I can recall the days while we moved in the booth display area, assembling our booth for the week, we would feel a spirit of anticipation for the great things we felt would happen to us this particular week. As we worked on assembling our booths, an assortment of groups maybe one or two out of various groups would just walk around the hall singing some of the old hymns of our Lord. You could hear this ring. This would ring like a choir of angels creating an atmosphere of praise, and an atmosphere of unity and love. Giving a break from the everyday stress of the commercial aspect of our industry. Sometimes I feel the commercial aspect of our industry has overshadowed the ministry, and with this in mind, the question is asked "Where has the Spirit gone"? I don't feel that I'm the only singer in Southern Gospel music that has these feelings. I feel that if we would bring back some of the old time spiritual feelings that we have had in the past, we could enjoy our ministries and our commercial endeavors a whole lot more.

Lets not forget who we are singing for and where we came from.

Don Garrett
Southern Harmony
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