Music more than just a job

By Carol Joseph

 

NAPLES, FL — It’s been said that when you love what you do, work doesn’t feel like work.  And for 51-year-old Becky Lynn Weese, truer words have never been spoken.  “I just love what I do,” proclaims Weese, director of music and the organist at the Naples United Church of Christ (UCC). “I love, love, love it,” she adds for emphasis.

Weese, who has undergraduate degrees in church music and music education and a doctorate in musical arts and choral conducting, doesn’t see her job as work, but more as something she’s both called and blessed to do.

“I’m one of those people, that I get up in the morning and I pinch myself how lucky I am,” she says enthusiastically of the job she’s had for almost 11 years.