January 2 was Happy Birthday number 57 for me. It seems like I just turned 50 a little while ago! But much has happened in these years besides my getting older, stiffer, and whiter-in-the-beard.
I have lived these years, and I am grateful for them.
As I grow older, I feel "closer" to my whole life. I have a better understanding and appreciation of not only the limits and naiveté of my teenage years, but also the aspirations, work, and achievements of that time.
What I really need is to FIND THE CASSETTE TAPE that has all the instrumental guitar songs/pieces I composed forty-ish years ago and played by memory. I don’t remember them and they are not written down.🎸🎶 The tape is somewhere, but where?
I wrote music for cello and strings, but it’s not very interesting, whereas the guitar stuff was pretty good but I play guitar by ear and composed by memory — and now I have lost the memory. I could remember them if I could FIND THE TAPE!! Dang, where is it?🎵 Where did I put it?
Dear God, I thank you for my life. I thank you for drawing my heart, through the years, with all the hints of beauty and goodness in things, the signs that point to you as the Source and Fulfillment of all things. I have not been able to rest content in any of these things (for this also, I thank you) — but my restlessness is stirred by the promise inherent in them, the promise that urges me toward you, but that has only become cohesive, focused, and convincing for me through Jesus Christ. You have come to dwell with us, Jesus; you have revealed your glory through a human face.
You have made my life worth living, and you have made my journey in this world — with its trials and tribulations but also its adventures and joys and music🎶 — a cause for wonder and gratitude. Thank you!
And dear Lord, please help me find that tape?😉
