eyes to see

Do you ever get those flashes of life where suddenly everything extraneous is stripped away and you see who God wants you to be and you get a glimpse of all the goodness that is in everything?  I blog at you tonight, downstairs we have company who are making music together.  All their faces glow and they are in one place and they are peeling back a piece of cloud to see heaven.  The Maker and the doer and the listener.  All our gifts and all our talents.

Some days are like that. Music makes me feel there is a window into the eternal world.

I think music is one of the greatest material gifts you can give your child.  When we started homeschooling, from the get go we decided, music had to be a priority.  And now, with people singing and playing guitar and dulcimer and harp and piano and ukelele and friends over play fiddle and other cool things, it is so fine.

 I am not musical.  I do not play an instrument and I can't sing very well. I can make a joyful noise though.  Like I can sing out, "Children, do play something!!"  And that has been my main role in the fostering of musical talents and pleasures.  I wish that I had music, but it is what it is.  Fortunately God did instill in my a deep desire to give music to my children.  So that must be my talent to be shared.  The desire for music in my family.

But my children can make music and that starts off a whole new generation of music makers. 

God bless them all with the desire to make music and sing with their future spouses and sing to their future babies and play for me when I am old.

St. Cecilia, pray for us!