Laying Trumpet Aside (Dec, '06)

I haven't posted about my music but it has been a big part of my life. I began playing trumpet in grade school and have continued all these years. My trumpet put me through college and paid bills in my younger days.  I have played through eight full-term pregnancies with little trouble and my music has carried me through three devistating miscarriages, several rounds of pneumonia, and even a bout of Bells Palsy, (that was interesting)/  I'm no virtuoso (ha!) but I'm adequate for my small town. Now I'm laying my trumpet aside. This makes me very sad but for right now, it's the right decision. I'm really feeling it during the Christmas season though. 
Now I will focus more on my children's music. I hope they will be blessed as much as I have been through the years and maybe I will perform again but right now, my audience is my family.

The Winds of Change (Nov, '06)

As the saying goes, "All good things must come to an end," and so it goes with our relationship with our church. This is a very sad time for my family as we've held membership at FBC since August, 1997, and we have been very blessed by our church family over the years. Our entire lives are wrapped up here; all of our social functions stem from church, five of my eight living children have confessed Christ as their Lord while here. This church as lifted me up during the marriage struggles of our early membership and the more recent deaths of our three unborn babies. 
Our church is heading in a direction that Clint and I don't want to take and so Clint has made the painful decision to take our family to a place we don't yet know. I am reminded of Abraham when told to leave Er and go to a land God Himself said, "I will show you." 
Now that the split has been made, I'm excited and looking forward to where God is leading my husband.