Sin is a worried concern of prophets
ancient and
modern. Do we hear them
and repent
or keep quiet about our own
favorite “little
sins?”
Stories of David and others show we must
set aside
our self-serving private struggle by
saying STOP!
Before it engulfs our life, and
keeps us from
returning to our father in heaven.
Sixteen is when it began with me. Not knowing
Christ and
being from a broken home, I cherished
time with
my father, a CPA, who wanted me to
choose a
spread-sheet, well paying future profession.
So, let’s discover your talents, he said. That’s
where
their strength
should be your focus in college.
My choices
art or music? Dad’s client manufactured
brass
musical instruments. For some reason they had
three clarinets
from France gathering dust on a shelf.
Since fourth grade, I’d been playing on rented
instruments.
It showed
that I was serious about developing this talent.
Dad
arranged a tour of their plant, and I selected one
of those
three instruments and he bought it for me.
Saxophone, coronets and tubas can be engraved with
embellishments
all over them. No place on a clarinet
for that
art. So, their Master Engraver made me a name tag.
Sixty years later, it had became tarnished and
darkened. A
Symbol of
life’s struggles, while learning what love really is.
The love of
the Savior, once found, and baptized, washed me
clean and
bright again; sins forgiven.
Suffering for me, the Spirit sanctifying my soul,
Jesus
Christ is now my focus. I sing songs of praise every
Sabbath. I
glorify God, speak with understanding and serve
as His sunshine
warrior woman. I stand still and know that He is!
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