Let the Music of Life Play On
Let the music of life play on…wise guidance that often goes by unnoticed, especially if life right at this moment looks like it could be just a titch better. When received that way, it is the kind of wisdom that sounds more like a sour note rather than the melodious message it was meant to be.
It seems that when life is good it is very good, but there are times when no matter what we do we seem to come a cropper. Plain and simply, sometimes it seems the music of our life comes to a standstill and it is then that it is hard to believe that the music of our life can play on. In truth, if you can find it in your heart to understand the bigger story of your life, maybe you can appreciate that a few false notes need to be played and practiced to get the final melody on key.
A woman recently shared this story with me: it holds some of the rudiments of what perhaps it takes to let the music of your life play on. This woman has tried so very hard for many years to realize what she believes to be her destiny. She has written good books, invested lots of money to market her wares, changed relationships that no longer worked, helped those near her through crisis and through it all she worked very hard to keep her sense of hope. She has had difficult physical challenges through this time in her life and still she motored on…believing that at the right moment things would come together. Her physical challenges caused her great anxiety because she wondered if she would be able to do what she needed to do if she was not up to par physically.
During all of this chaos, she was gifted with ‘a music of life moment’. A friend happened to ask her to audit a couple of university courses. For many reasons she saw them as where she should be at this time. She also, having been gifted with a good voice and good pitch, decided after all these years to sign up for singing lessons. It seems that somewhere in all these activities she found the inspiration to break the block that had been containing her creativity. She has begun to write her next book. She has once again found her voice. She found hope for her future.
Perhaps in pottery, writing, music or art classes there is an invitation for us all to break the routine of what we know…to move to other places that allow us to see and do other things.


