School work is done. The kitchen is clean. Clothes are hung up. And now the hardest part of Wednesday comes.
She fans her fingers over the worn keys of her great great aunt’s piano and looks down, ignoring the lines and dots on the page. And she plays beautifully.
She ends with an arpeggio of her own… 
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How To Practice
The Right Answer(s)
8-2=6
3+4=7
10-8=2
“Great job.”
She stood beside me smiling. “This was too easy.”
I flipped the paper over……
The Parable Explained
I loved reading your interpretations of the parable I posted a couple days ago. There’s no right meaning I guess. But there is a meaning I had in mind.
The little girl is me. I come to Christ and he tells me I can be more – I can be like him. He sees something of…
The Parable Of The Obedient Piano Student
After the concert, the little girl sheepishly slinked her way up to the man in black. She held her first year piano book out to the maestro.
He stooped and uncapped his pen. “Do you play the piano?” he asked, scribbling his name in great loops and quick slashes on a corner of the thin book’s…
In The Sky
Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an…
If We Move To Texas…
My in-laws from Houston are in town. Ten grandkids at a local hotel with Granda and Papa, at the over-chlorinated indoor swimming pool. Girls in one room. Boys in another. An evening meal at Cracker Barrel. Late night movie watching, eating candy, drinking Dr. Pepper – living like rock stars. For one Summer night. It’s…
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