Lady Titanic vs. Lady Grey
Imagine two different scenarios:
Scenario 1 - Lady Titanic
Mario and I treated ourselves for a lunch at Moyo at Zoo Lake. They had a live band - four South Africans, two ladies and two men. One of the ladies did the vocals, the men on the drums and keyboard between the two of them and the other lady, to our astonishment played the bass guitar. Maybe not that amazing, when listening to me describing it, but picture this: she must weigh nearly 200 kg and definitely not dressed to kill.
So with this picture before us we were blown away by the sound she was getting out of that guitar.
She will make any musician envious and while playing that instrument, with passion, she looked like the queen of rhythm and jazz.
She is the player of an instrument.
Scenario 2 - Lady Grey
We are in church, time for praise and worship. The band is leading the way through their harmonious accord they create an atmosphere of holiness. They also have a base guitar player. Also a lady. She does not look like a musician either. She looks like she is visiting from a nearby retirement village. Her grey hair rhythmically banging along as she plucks the strings. One could not keep from wondering if her grandchildren enjoy her music. She made me wanting to play that instrument.
She looked like the queen of praise and worship.
She is the player of an instrument.
One instrument two opposite players.
I appreciate people who live beyond their appearances, do what they want to do despite other's expectations.
We are all instruments. Instruments with a choice. Although we cannot play our own strings, create our own tunes, we can choose who to get played by.
That choice affects the tune we live by everyday. How we perceive ourselves and project ourselves to others.
We can choose to be played by a master Musician, by God Himself. Because He created you as His instrument, he knows you. He knows how to play you to create the purest sound, so that you can fulfill the purpose for which you were created.
We can't play ourselves - we need a song to sing that was created outside of us. A song written for us even before our existence.
Don't play your own life song, rather get played by the Master Musician.
Imagine two different scenarios:
Scenario 1 - Lady Titanic
Mario and I treated ourselves for a lunch at Moyo at Zoo Lake. They had a live band - four South Africans, two ladies and two men. One of the ladies did the vocals, the men on the drums and keyboard between the two of them and the other lady, to our astonishment played the bass guitar. Maybe not that amazing, when listening to me describing it, but picture this: she must weigh nearly 200 kg and definitely not dressed to kill.
So with this picture before us we were blown away by the sound she was getting out of that guitar.
She will make any musician envious and while playing that instrument, with passion, she looked like the queen of rhythm and jazz.
She is the player of an instrument.
Scenario 2 - Lady Grey
We are in church, time for praise and worship. The band is leading the way through their harmonious accord they create an atmosphere of holiness. They also have a base guitar player. Also a lady. She does not look like a musician either. She looks like she is visiting from a nearby retirement village. Her grey hair rhythmically banging along as she plucks the strings. One could not keep from wondering if her grandchildren enjoy her music. She made me wanting to play that instrument.
She looked like the queen of praise and worship.
She is the player of an instrument.
One instrument two opposite players.
I appreciate people who live beyond their appearances, do what they want to do despite other's expectations.
We are all instruments. Instruments with a choice. Although we cannot play our own strings, create our own tunes, we can choose who to get played by.
That choice affects the tune we live by everyday. How we perceive ourselves and project ourselves to others.
We can choose to be played by a master Musician, by God Himself. Because He created you as His instrument, he knows you. He knows how to play you to create the purest sound, so that you can fulfill the purpose for which you were created.
We can't play ourselves - we need a song to sing that was created outside of us. A song written for us even before our existence.
Don't play your own life song, rather get played by the Master Musician.
1 comment:
Hey Ri, I loved your comments on the musicians and the instruments and it got me thinking. Coming from a background where my whole childhood and teenage years were devoted to training in and playing the piano and clarinet, I would often look at an instrument and think about the sorts of sounds and music one could create with it.
Take a grand piano for instance, a beautiful instrument that is exquisitely and expertly crafted. No matter how perfectly it was created, it certainly does not look, smell, or feel nearly as beautiful as it could sound if a virtuoso musician were to play on it.
I liken ourselves to a beautiful expertly crafted 'instrument' made by God. However if we live our lives, not allowing our creator to 'play us' we will never know the full extent of our potential or how beautiful we can be. Life lived without God, is like this grand piano, something created, so beautiful, so full of potential and good, yet living like a closed box, gathering dust, never realising how magnificent we can be under his hands. If we allow God to 'play in our lives' he can create through us, the most beautiful heavenly music, bringing joy, love, peace and good to those around us.
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