Feb 01 2008
Happy February!
Well, my last entry that I posted got partially destroyed and out of frustration I just deleted it completely. Oh well maybe it happened for reason. Maybe it was for my eyes only. I think I’m getting restless waiting for what’s next. I’m ready for another adventure. I’m ready for some change. I’m ready to meet some new strangers, new food, new surroundings, new entertainment, new experiences, etc. My options are endless and my ideas are few. I think I should put all of my options into a hat and draw one. Anything is possible and I’m curious to know where he will lead. I’ve been looking for my closed doors that are eventually going to lead to me finding an open one which I will run through leaving all of my fears behind. I graduate in May and I would really like to know what’s on my next plate and at the same time I would like to take things one meal at a time. I just have to find the balance between the two. These are some exciting and apprehensive times and it’s encouraging to know that the best is yet to come.
There is no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it.” In our whole life-melody the music is broken off here and there by “rests,” and we foolishly think we have come to the end of the tune. God sends a time of forced leisure, sickness, disappointed plans, frustrated efforts, and makes a sudden pause in the choral hymn of our lives; and we lament that our voices must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of the Creator. How does the musician read the “rest”? See him beat the time with unvarying count, and catch up the next note true and steady, as if no breaking place had come between.
Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the tune, and not be dismayed at the “rests.” They are not to be slurred over, not to be omitted, not to destroy the melody, not to change the keynote. If we look up, God himself will beat the time for us. With the eye on Him, we shall strike the next note full and clear. If we sadly say to ourselves, “There is no music in a ‘rest,’” lest us not forget “there is the making of music in it.” The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson! -Ruskin.
Tip Of The Day: Awareness of His presence changes everything and it should!
speaking of guitar…when are you going to put out that cd of yours? i really want to hear it. i’ll only be graduating with my generals in May. So more then likely I’ll have more schooling. I could see you being a professor. Haha a funny one at that. What would you teach?