In “Other” Words

Our mother used to tell us, “I do not want to hear that you are bored. There are plenty of things to do. Find some­thing.” And then she would walk away, going about her own busi­ness, leav­ing us to fig­ure out some­thing to occupy our own time.She used to call her­self a “domes­tic engi­neer” which would trans­late today to how many blog­gers describe them­selves: SAHM. It took me a few blog vis­its to fig­ure out that meant “stay at home mom.“She was always at home. Every sin­gle day when we got home from school, she was there. Rain or shine. Notice I did not say that she picked us up from school. No, we rode our bikes or walked to school and we only got a ride one way or the other if it was really rain­ing. A few sprin­kles? “You won’t melt.”

“Lower your expec­ta­tions of earth.This isn’t heaven, so don’t expect it to be.”~ Max Lucado ~Noth­ing on this earth will dis­ap­point you more or more often than … peo­ple. There is noth­ing on the planet as capa­ble of destroy­ing your spirit or your self-confidence as another flawed human being. It hap­pens time and again. You let […]

“When God is involved, any­thing can hap­pen.
Be open and stay that way. God has a beau­ti­ful way of bring­ing good vibra­tions out of bro­ken chords.”

~ Chuck Swindoll ~

No quote could more aptly sum­ma­rize the theme and gen­e­sis of this blog.

This blog was born out of bro­ken chords — lit­er­ally and figuratively.

A life­long musi­cian, I spent my life serv­ing var­i­ous churches in that capac­ity. It was the bro­ken chords of my rela­tion­ship with a par­tic­u­lar con­gre­ga­tion but also, on a much larger scale, a denom­i­na­tion, and the insti­tu­tional church itself that inspired me to begin this blog in order to chart the new music that per­me­ates and res­onates in my life today.