{"id":3911,"date":"2013-09-18T09:09:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T15:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2013-09-18T09:09:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T15:09:03","slug":"kosovo-singing-for-soul-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=3911","title":{"rendered":"KOSOVO: Singing for Soul Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Meredith Moench, OM News<\/a>, September 13, 2013<\/p>\n

“You know, we’re still not healed from wartime here in Kosova. We’re still not really laughing,” said 19-year-old “Nora.” We’re sitting in a crowded cafeteria of teenagers. Nora seems undistracted.<\/p>\n

Two nights before, Nora stood in that same cafeteria and stunned the room as she sang for the Arts Camp Student Talent Show. Her voice was strong as a diamond, precise on the highest notes, piercing. She closed her eyes as she stood at the microphone and let her voice do the work.<\/p>\n

OM arts camp director “Malachi” hoped to create a special space for young Kosovar artists to develop their art forms. In a country lacking artistic support and development, Malachi’s vision is to break cultural and religious barriers with the God-given power of the arts.<\/p>\n

Through a spiritual reflection each morning, he turned the students’ gaze inward, and pointed them to their need to know the greatest artist of all: their Creator. Each evening the students and teachers were mutually given the dignity of sharing their art form through performance, and experiencing God’s presence in the creative expression of others.<\/p>\n

For Nora, it was singing that sparked her opportunity to attend camp. “Music is really helping me. It’s like it brings peace and joy deep inside a person. I want to heal people, because when people are hurt they do bad things. By healing people we can make things better,” she paused.<\/p>\n

“I know that I’m not healed yet, but this camp has started to help me. It’s difficult to forgive. I haven’t forgiven the Serbs yet,” said Nora. “But I choose the way of God; I choose the way of healing.”<\/p>\n

\u00bb Read full story<\/a>. Several other recent stories from OM also highlight the power of music to touch hearts. See Dance for France<\/a> and Singing Tourists<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: Meredith Moench, OM News, September 13, 2013 “You know, we’re still not healed from wartime here in Kosova. We’re still not really laughing,” said 19-year-old “Nora.” We’re sitting in a crowded cafeteria of teenagers. Nora seems undistracted. Two nights before, Nora stood in that same cafeteria and stunned the room as she sang for … Continue reading KOSOVO: Singing for Soul Healing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3912,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions\/3912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}