By Cyn Wilson
Have you ever had something happen and it just took so very long to ‘get over it’? This last weekend there was a guest speaker at my church I had a story to tell regarding using the materials I had learned from one of his seminars very recently. (The same seminar material just happened to be going on at the facilities that weekend via this speaker). I was very excited to tell him about a story using his material in order to make a particular local organization a better place. As I was on my way to speak with him, the music director for the church stopped me for a moment. He asked if I was in the Encounter Singles group and how that was going for me. I told the gentleman I was a member of the group and that is was going well. I then went on to tell him that I had been practicing the guitar and when I was ready, I was interested in auditioning for the worship team as a guitarist. He said something about looking forward to that audition.
Now, you may be wondering why this encounter with the Music Director was important. I had auditioned for the choir a year previous, and did get into the choir…before being released from it after my first performance with the choir. I had just joined the choir at the wrong timing that year is all. As it turned out in the reality of things though, his call was a good one—despite how I may have felt at that time about it. I had way too much on my plate of life experiences training going on at that time. I was working on my last year of Baccalaureate Studies and also some Business Training for the business I had become a more present part in. This gentleman I encountered just this past Sunday, was the director of the choir I also auditioned with previously. By this time, I had long let go of any feelings or regrets of my own from being released from the choir the previous year. I was now practicing the guitar for a grand design I am unsure of, yet I still prepare for anyway. I even added more songs with chords I am more comfortable playing in practice this last week. In doing this, I have been gaining more confidence and enjoying myself with each practice session lately. So when I encountered the Music Director again in a loving manner just by chance this past Sunday, I felt more encouraged of this grand design I have been preparing myself for with my guitar. It would be nice to have a place in the future with the worship team; I hold zero expectations this time around.
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