I love music! I love to listen to music live or on the radio and play the
piano - yet, after all these years of being totally involved in music,
it still amazes me how music can speak to the soul.
It can lift your
spirit
It can put you in a mood
It can bring back memories.
When
certain songs are played for specific reasons - it can make you not want
to listen to the song anymore in order to not feel how you did when you
would hear the song.
There is one song that I have locked away - I used
to love to listen to it, until we chose to use it at my husband's funeral. So
now I choose not to listen to it because it brings back those memories -
a time that I would not wish on anyone.
So this morning, listening
to the Southern Gospel station - imagine my surprise to hear
the first strains of this song - a song I have NEVER heard on the tv
radio, it is rarely played on the radio - I don't even know if I have
ever heard it on the radio. But as soon as the first strums started - I
knew.. I stopped in my tracks and could not believe I was really hearing
that song. But hear it I did - in its entirety and it did take me back.
I wondered why I was hearing it this morning - I mean, I love my life. I
am in a place that 14 years ago I never thought I would be in. I love
my husband and my family, my friends, my work, my church, my life. But I
am one that truly believes that if after so long I am hearing it now
there must have been a reason. I looked at the calendar and realized
that today is the anniversary of his funeral. And so - 14 years later - that one song, played
for 3 minutes this morning - has taken me back.
