A Quaint Fizzle

'Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.'

A friend of mine just sent this to me in an email message and it struck me so. As we bump into many faces living out our days and nights, we never know what troubles are deep inside them. If we can slow down enough to think of the other person (me included) there could be more understanding and compassion that could translate into kindness.

Romantic Serenade by Cesare Detti

Opera: A Drama Set to Music .....

My life is an Opera in the sense that I set to music the special moments of the day.

It is not by instrumental means that the Opera comes about, it is vocal. In the daily chores of life, here comes the tones and rhythms out to the open air. Work or home. Planned or unplanned. Loud or soft. Silly or serious. I sing. What a joy it brings to my life.

Do you have a fine singing voice - someone may ask? Does it really matter? Screech or squawk or serenade with excellence, this time of vocalizing helps me to balance the emotional build up that starts for me as early at 5:00 a.m.

Early in childhood, thoughts rush in of my brother getting upset at my songs. "Today is Monday, Today is Monday, ...." For my sister it was "Abba dabba dabba dabba, said the Chimpey to the Monk ..." Oh, poor fellows they were - forced to listen to my babbling, - because I did not stop!

Even though I have embraced the joy of the daily opera, I have found my true voice and what I want to do with it. It is lifting up the name of my God and Lord in praise and worship. It is the path I have been place upon. Not by my might, not by my power, not by my talent, but it is by the Spirit.

I encourage you to sing a song today. Make an opera of your day but also remember to lift up the name of Jesus Christ.

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