Rediscovering my Guitar

Over the last couple of months I have been visiting a school - Meadowlane - just across the road from where we meet as a church. I already visit the school once ever school term to do an assembly for them and that is great fun, but I wanted to do a bit more. So I went and talked with the Head of the school about doing a weekly guitar club.

So a couple of months back I started Guitar Club with about 15 children aged 9-11. It has been great fun seeing them come along each week and you can see that some have a natural ability to learn the guitar easily and others need to work harder to remember the chords and the rhythms. One of the side benefits has been I have been picking up my guitar a lot more often. Having started playing over 30 years ago I am pretty good but soon noticed how out of practice I am at playing. One of the most obvious things is how quickly your hands get tired and your fingers hurt!

It is funny how business of life can get in the way of so many things and this is true not just of guitar playing but also of so many things that God wants us to do in our live. Today I have been working on a sermon for Sunday and read how Paul in a whole passage about the grace of God talks about the fact that

"we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do".

Having that kind of attitude will effect everything that we do and say and for that matter how and when I pick up that guitar...

Below is one of the YouTube videos I have been using to encourage me in my guitar playing a great song by Lincoln Brewster