Acceptance...

Wow, it has been a long time since I last "blogged." Darn near a week and a half. Hope everyone had a good and happy Thanksgiving. That is part of the reason I haven't blogged lately, the holiday. The bigger reason is that I haven't been in the best of moods lately. I never mean to "whine" and I consider (and most of you would agree) myself to be a cheery type person. So recently I've just found myself in a funk. One where I'm lonely, disliking aspects of where I'm at in various aspects of my life, etc. You know, the post-college blues if you want to call them that. After talks with trusted friends (some probably don't even know they were helping me out as we were talking) and some reading of the Bible (which I find myself doing a lot more since moving this summer) I've pepped up quite a bit. Part of that is accepting where I'm at, who I am. Accepting is different than settling...I still aspire or dream of bigger things...Accepting is just being comfortable with where I'm at, knowing those big things are ahead. Part of this is to BE PATIENT! Not the easiest thing in the world, but what I do is try to S-L-O-W everything down. If I'm stuck behind grandpa going 10 mph through town (like tonight), don't worry...I'll get to where I'm going. Just like bigger life issues...Don't worry, I'll get to where I'm going.

Change of pace, after reading another blog of one of our college friends (Tempa) I started thinking about music in our lives. Mind you, I'm not a music major, I could never write a song, I barely can sing, and my piano playing skills have gone down hill, but I consider myself to be one of the biggest music fans I know. I love all kinds of it, every genre and how fitting some of the lyrics are to what I feel, etc. is unbelievable. I know Tempa had a quote from T.S. Eliot on her blog about music. I don't mean to upstage her, but I instantly thought about my favorite scene from my favorite movie:
Andy has just come back from "the hole," serving time for playing Mozart on
loudspeaker. The guys ask him how his time was, he responds "easiest time
I've ever done, with Mr. Mozart to keep me company" They ask back, "Why?
Did you get to bring that record player with you?" Andy shoots back, "No, it
was right here (points to his head) and right here (points to his heart). You
guys don't feel that way about music?...it is something in your soul they can't
take." (Shawshank Redemption)

Later
ps. Congrats to the Lineville-Clio girls whom I'm helping coach, for their 30 point win tonight!