From Technical to Terrific
During the first 17 years of my life a great percentage of that time was
spent learning the intricacies of the piano, with hours of scales, arpeggios and
melodies of increasing difficulty.
Since that initial learning stage this special instrument has brought many hours
of enjoyment, for both myself and others. But let me dig a little deeper with
you!
There were many times when my various teachers would say that I had to take a
new piece home and practice just one section of it over and over at a very slow
pace. I was not allowed to play it at normal speed till the next lesson. This
advice frustrated me incredibly because my music lived in my head, not my
fingers.
Grudgingly, though, I would spend hours going over and over particular difficult
sections of Beethoven’s sonatas & Bach’s preludes and fugues, wondering whether
any improvement was actually occurring.
Amazingly at the next music lesson the teacher could tell whether I had
practiced slowly or not. I never really worked out how they knew, but the
fluency achieved on the practiced piece became long lasting and more mature.
God works the same way. Sometimes he asks you to step forward into the unknown,
step by step at a painfully slow pace. We usually want to run ahead, thinking
that we know best, and it is only later on that we understand more fully, that
God knows what’s best!
TODAY, step out confidently knowing that…
“…all that happens to us is working for our good, if we love God and are fitting
into His plans.” Romans 8:28
Bruce Wadd brucewadd@todaysthought.sharesong.org