Back to the Basics

Have you ever wondered what your life would have been if you had chosen to do something else from what you ended up doing?  Does that make sense?  Why am I asking all these questions so early on Saturday morning when I could be doing something else?  UUUPPPPS, there I go again!

I was checking my e-mail and Facebook as I usually do when I get to my computer in the morning and found some wonderful items like this from the daily devotional I subscribe to:

It is about simplicity.  All these "things" we seem to NEED, are perhaps keeping us from enjoying the things that God has for us to enjoy.  With todays rush to technology and have that easy, laid back life style, I think perhaps we are rushing, pushing, fighting our way to get NOWHERE!  Or even worse, to drive ourselves farther from the one most important to us, that loves us beyond belief, and has far more to give us than the worldly hodgepodge of manmade stuff.

So I was browsing through my Facebook and found this:

If you are a regular or at least have graced me with reading some of my thoughts from before, you know how I love music and attempt to share it with others, mainly through church.  It got me thinking about "What IF, I had decided to become a musician as an occupation instead of what I actually chose?"  What a hard life that would have been physically. Loving music as much as I do, maybe it would have been an acceptable trade for the love of sharing music to a wider number of people.  But then maybe what I chose is a good balance with what talents God has blessed me with in other areas as well.  You see, sometimes we as humans don't have the whole picture to look at, like God does.  Most times, we come across something shiny and vier off course and chase that shiny thing for a while, then find ourselves doing something that God had not intended that we do.  That is when we must reassess our real purpose and get back on track with talking to God on a more regular basis (like EVERY DAY...ALL DAY LONG), and things will smooth out again.  As the picture above says . . . make a decision . . . you can't do both.  Though, maybe, with God's guidance you CAN do both!  It seems like I have.  I so enjoy playing and leading singing on Sunday morning.  I feel that God has given me a gift and it needs to be shared so others can perhaps see God within the music He has blessed us with that morning.  Music enhances the message.  It is a message of Love and Caring for each other. 

I hope that music is a part of everyone's life to some degree.  There are some good Christian musicians today, as there have been throughout our history.  Today we have more access to it through technology.  Enjoy it.  For some, they HAVE become musicians and knowing some professional musicians, they really are better off, NOT growing up!  Isn't it wonderful that God gives us many ways to communicate with HIM?  Music is one of them.  It is a simple thing.  The birds provide us with music.  The gentle breeze provides us with music.  A babbling stream gives us wonderful, melodic sounds as well.  All we have to do is listen.  God provides us with everything we need.  All we need to do is accept it and enjoy it.  Back to the basics.  Slow down.  Smell the flowers.  Listen to the chorus of music in the air.

Keep singing, keep praying, keep smiling,

Blessings,

Gary