I have a private group on Facebook entitled. \u201cDr. Dan\u2019s Bible Reading Group.\u201d The 365 members read one chapter each day and some post impressions, feelings, applications, and related prayer requests. Most don\u2019t post but only benefit from the postings of others. Last week we read 1 Corinthians 14 and verse 8 captured my attention, and sent me back to my teen-age years, \u201cIf the trumpet makes an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle?\u201d When I was thirteen years old, my \u00a0musical mother (she played the snare drum in her High School band) decided I should learn to play an instrument. We discussed the possibilities.\u00a0 I really wanted to play Saxophone, but she said I wouldn\u2019t be allowed to play that in a church service.\u00a0 Same reason for a Trumpet. Remember, this was the 1950s.\u00a0 We settled on a Trombone and a teacher was hired.\u00a0 I began to envision playing at church, or on stage, or maybe even in the Baylor University Golden Wave Band.\u00a0 I would have preferred dreaming about the Fighting Texas Aggie Band, but that wasn\u2019t allowed in our very conservative Baptist family. During the first lesson, my teacher taught me the positions on the slide and the sounds made by each position.\u00a0 Before the next lesson, I learned to play by ear, and performed a rough version of, \u201cWhispering Hope\u201d for him.\u00a0 He promptly quit, the Trombone went to my closet, and I went back to baseball practice. Music was an uncertain territory for me and the notes just didn\u2019t come out of the horn like they were supposed to.\u00a0 Lesson learned:\u00a0 Play the notes God gives you with certainly and leave the uncertain notes to someone else.<\/p>\n
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