Trail of Music

Starting today, I will be instituting Throwback Thursday,

A time to look back on my fifteen years of notes and 

Bring some of them back into the light. 

 

Our first note goes back a decade, to 1.6.16. 

 

I was walking through Hobby Lobby the week before Christmas,

Impossibly stealthily,

Dangling a set of wind chimes from each hand,

When I found myself imagining that a trail of music notes was following behind me,

Gently floating as bubbles blowing in the wind. 

I mentioned this image to Barb the Great as we moved from aisle to aisle, but, honestly, I forgot about the experience until I later hung the wind chimes outside my classroom door. 

As the wind chimes once again dangled from my hands, I caught myself imagining that same trail of music notes—

Only this time I wasn’t absent-mindedly walking through the aisles of a large, retail store,

Rather I was intentionally walking around my classroom,

Hoping that the notes would subconsciously sink into my students’ lives and influence them for good.

 

Friends: 

May we be a people who not only leave behind music notes

But who also leave behind notes of grace and 

Sounds of love 

So that everyone who walks in our footsteps  may be subconsciously

affected by love

freed by grace and

changed for good.

Together, may we fill this world with trails of love.

 

Amen.