Music in the Air

Here I thought my life playing music was LONG gone - and if I did play it certainly wouldn't be fun - WOW was I ever wrong...

I'm now playing keyboard for two church bands - one is only temporary until the ministry gets off the ground and gets their own members involved and ready to take on the fun - I am still amazed that I'm not in charge of my own life and that even after all this time I can actually be useful and enjoy myself at the same time!

I am working through what I have referred to as "survival". I've been a "good Christian" for a long time and I've known that forgiveness is for you and not the other person - but I never applied that knowledge to the person(s) who broke into my home back in Alabama the winter before we moved to Florida...stealing my computer, heirlooms, game systems - I could handle - we would replace it, but stealing my keyboard - the very back-burner item in the purchasing hierarchy - I couldn't let it go. Then it dawned on me that it had not been replaced for that very reason...I had to let it go and forgive whomever took it without consideration of how it would impact my life. I stayed a prisoner for 5 1/2 years - and my feelings have not yet caught up to my mind and my will, but I have made a choice that the responsible party is forgiven. Truth be told, I wanted weighted keys anyway! This will seem a silly post to most people, but maybe I'll print this and maybe one of my kids will need to see this someday.
That's the point, right? Having yourself in a position to make sure you do a little better than your parents, and your kids do a little (or a lot) better than you do? I like to think so.