Oh, the goodness one can get in choir.

Musica animam tangens
Maria vitae effundens
Flumina cor liberantia omnes amore amantia
Musica sonans resonans
Implens meam essentiam
Meam inundat animam
Velut fluctibus montem submersum
Ut tangam Deum.

And for those of you who have not recently brushed up on your Latin skills, here is a translation:

Music touching;
Exhaling its breathless oceans of life --
Currents that free hearts, giving love to
All that open the sounds that fill
The mountain of my existence
And overflow my soul
to touch God.

--poem by Ryan Newstrom, Latin adaptation by Byron Stayskal

If only you could hear the music that Joshua Shank wrote to this. It's beyond my words.

♥