A Prayer

This evening was a day where a gathering of people prayed together and listened to The Boys and Girls Choir of Harlem sing aloud various songs from Mozart's Ave Verum corpus to the traditional Sakura Sakura to help send relief efforts to Japan as well as comforting the people around us. This performance was meant to, according to Rikako Asanuma, the founder of this evening's performance and the pianist, connect us all by "building a bridge from the east to the west, all across the Pacific Ocean and be together and sing together." The large banner that hung up on the wall read, "How good it is when brothers and sisters dwell together in harmony". This message sums up the sole purpose of the performance.

The pamphlet read that this was a benefit concert for Japan and Southern U.S, but it seemed like the concert only performed Japan-based songs and speeches and not so much about the South.

During the end of the concert after the choir performed a beautiful prayer song and I exited the church, it started to rain. It started to rain just after I took a step outside. This tells me that the world was spiritual and that, in some cases, He exists.