May I introduce you to my dear, life long friend?
She came into my life, when I was a 10 year old, little girl...She had been purchased for my older sister, Lynn.
With there being no 'connection' between the purchase and the sister, I inquired if I might be allowed to give her a try. How difficult to learn the correct 'embouchure' ...future teachers would struggle to teach me the 'correct' way, but as the tone rang clear and sweet, their efforts subsided... I had found my newest passion!
The romance between my Artley flute and I began, all those years ago...
Now, 40 years later...
She has had new pads, has acquired a new case...as the original would no longer remain snapped closed, and plays as lovely as she ever did...
Flute lessons, beginning band...with the most outstanding band director the world has ever known...Mr. Joe Walden of Orlando, Florida...marching band, recitals, concerts, church orchestras, and on to play for assemblies at the middle school where I taught, she has remained loyal at my side...and at one time...it was quite difficult to distinguish the flute from its player...tall, thin, piercing high pitched voice...oh, such awkward years she has seen me through....
This morning, she is pulled from her case, pieces placed together, and warmed.....
'Songbirds at Sunrise' plays on the Bose...and as the volume is turned high...I find the somber tones, flowing from my flute, accompanying the birds and loveliest instruments....insects, singing their lullabies...frogs croaking...
I am transported...
How thankful am I, Heavenly Father, for your gift of inspiration, sprinkled down upon us, in so many ways...at the time we need it most..
For our heart has come alive again... restoring passion, once lost,.... and your child has found her way back to a gift You promised to bless, for as long as it was tended to.
Thank you for your eternal patience....for, to You.....time is irrelevant....it flows ever forwards with the whisper of your Breath...slowing and speeding...to the pace of Your divine will..
You know our hearts desires...and You wait....for us to be still once more....and hear Your promises fresh and new.
And you Bless.
She came into my life, when I was a 10 year old, little girl...She had been purchased for my older sister, Lynn.
With there being no 'connection' between the purchase and the sister, I inquired if I might be allowed to give her a try. How difficult to learn the correct 'embouchure' ...future teachers would struggle to teach me the 'correct' way, but as the tone rang clear and sweet, their efforts subsided... I had found my newest passion!
The romance between my Artley flute and I began, all those years ago...
Now, 40 years later...
She has had new pads, has acquired a new case...as the original would no longer remain snapped closed, and plays as lovely as she ever did...
Flute lessons, beginning band...with the most outstanding band director the world has ever known...Mr. Joe Walden of Orlando, Florida...marching band, recitals, concerts, church orchestras, and on to play for assemblies at the middle school where I taught, she has remained loyal at my side...and at one time...it was quite difficult to distinguish the flute from its player...tall, thin, piercing high pitched voice...oh, such awkward years she has seen me through....
This morning, she is pulled from her case, pieces placed together, and warmed.....
'Songbirds at Sunrise' plays on the Bose...and as the volume is turned high...I find the somber tones, flowing from my flute, accompanying the birds and loveliest instruments....insects, singing their lullabies...frogs croaking...
I am transported...
How thankful am I, Heavenly Father, for your gift of inspiration, sprinkled down upon us, in so many ways...at the time we need it most..
For our heart has come alive again... restoring passion, once lost,.... and your child has found her way back to a gift You promised to bless, for as long as it was tended to.
Thank you for your eternal patience....for, to You.....time is irrelevant....it flows ever forwards with the whisper of your Breath...slowing and speeding...to the pace of Your divine will..
You know our hearts desires...and You wait....for us to be still once more....and hear Your promises fresh and new.
And you Bless.