*My 1st GUITAR lesson

Today was a really nice day--well, at least I thought so! I felt some great peace and just filled with worship this morning at church. There were some memorable things too that were part of the morning.
1st, a friend's family returned from overseas last night with their new daughter. After 2 days of traveling and airports, I couldn't believe they made it to church this morning! But then again, what better way to celebrate a homecoming--by going to worship with church family to give thanks for God's gift of another child in their lives and thanks for smooth processing and travels. We are praying that God will fill all members of this family with a special kind of love between each member as He helps them bond with each other.
2nd, the P&W leader and his wife are relocating where he will be leading P&W at a newer church that is rapidly growing. They were a gift from God on loan from GOD to our church temporarily; now God has something planned for them to do in a new location. So thankyou Lord for that "loan". As we worshipped this morning, we were thankful for the brief time our church had them here.
3rd, another church group was visiting our church this morning as they prepare to start a churchplant in another corner of the city. This is always exciting to see. Sometimes I wonder if our church needs to spread out and church-plant instead of trying to contain everyone in one place. Anyway, today, our church was looking a little more like heaven might look like. As one of the worship songs was closing, during its last 30 seconds I could hear this wonderful blend of tones of voices that sent me back to a place of worship outside DC where the congregation was diverse and the beauty of each of God's people reminded us that God has quite an eclectic group of Children. So as our church grows, it is starting to look more like all the 'tongues, tribes, and nations' that will be in Heaven as God's children gather there. So that was like an answered prayer today in several ways....the blessing of a new child, the blessing of finding one of our son's hispanic friends visiting, and the blessing that our church is willing to welcome EVERYONE.

hmm...okay, what else...after church, OH, I HAD MY GUEE-TAR LESSON!!!! My 1st lesson went great. I was taught several chords, and my teacher tried to teach me my 1st song, but I needed more practice getting my fingers into position. His hands are so much smaller than mine! so I don't know how he stretches his wrist and fingers to place them 'just so' on the strings. After my 1/2 hour lesson, I practiced the chords enough that I was able to turn the page of his notebook and play the song. It had ...hmm...a G chord, an E.m., D, A, and oh, C2. So I was able to trod through "Amazing Grace" even though it would take like 100million seconds for me to switch to the next note. But is it a start. Thank goodness for God's 'amazing grace'! I'll need it while learning more, that's for sure!

After that, we went to a church family picnic for the young couple that is moving away. It was nice. The kids--mostly teens there--hung out enjoying the lake. Parents sat, chatted, and ate. And at some point we somehow got in some boat time. The kids must have come off the water in search for food for us to be able to get out on the boats! Anyway, it was a nice sendoff for 2 really sweet people. That's the way things should be for family in Christ.

oh, and also today during worship, the song "Mighty to Save" started being played. My son looked over at me with that look of a silent conversation going on silently between 2 people. He knew what song had just started being played bc of the guitar part....bc we love the yoUtube guitar clinic on that song. We have the worship song available below toward the bottom of this blog(at least it is still there as of today). My son knew it was posted here. So as we sang this song again, we chuckled about how we had been looking at the guitar clinic on it.

Did I mention how 'cute' my guitar teacher is???!!!!! He is so handsome. Just as handsome as my husband but in a different way! ....same hair color, eye color, similar features......

p.s.......I said to my husband "hon, can I have $5 to pay my guitar teacher?"
He said, "I don't have any cash! Go borrow it temporarily from your son."
( I knew he was referring to our youngest child and he was chuckling as he said this.) So I said to our youngest,
"Can I borrow $5 to pay my guitar teacher in cash?!"
He said, "Mom! I'm not giving you $5 to pay ME $5!"

okay, so I was pulling his leg. And yes, our youngest is my guitar teacher....a 1st for both of us....I couldn't play one chord on the guitar at all before today(other than that natural strum of all the strings and no fingers!) and it was his 1st time giving a lesson to someone. Gotta start somewhere, right? Well, he was fabulous. And he promptly told me when a 1/2 hour was up! And he gets paid $5 a lesson. We had an awesome time during our guitar lesson. My husband thought I must have learned a little before today! I said, "No! Our son taught me ALL of that today!" He was very surprised. Now I had better practice each day this week for my lesson next week!