Out of Tune

I have recently been trying to find other things to do besides eat. :) So...I have actually dusted off the ole piano and got out some books and tried to plink out a few tunes. It probably sounds more like plinking than tunes right now. But anyway, the more I try to play, the more I have realized how the old piano is sadly out of tune. There is one key that doesn't work and a couple of others that have a painful ringing sound to them when I "plink" them. To top it all off, actually I should say to bottom it all out...the sustain pedal (a very important pedal for any aspiring pianist") DOES NOT SUSTAIN! When I try to press on it with my foot, my notes are not sustained into long pretty tones. Instead they end very suddenly, making my "music" sound choppy and broken.

This whole experience of the attempting to play a less than perfect piano has kind of reminded me how my life has been lately...very far from perfect. Not that actually perfection is the goal, but a harmonious melodic life would be nice. It seems that I have had lots of things like the key and sustain pedal that are not quite working just right. I have had numerous health problems and this 40 year old body has many days felt like an 80 year old. I also have seemed very out of tune many days and things haven't been working together quite like I would want them to. But just like my piano can be "fixed" by the piano tuning man (who comes on Friday...Yippee!), I know the broken pieces of my life can be fixed by the Great Physician, my Abba Father, Almighty God, my Savior and Friend. He is the one I can go to for help to put the pieces back together and bring the harmony back again.

This journey of weight loss is just one area that He is helping to heal my physical body, but other parts of me are being tuned up in the process. Amazing how that all works! He is showing me how there is hope, not just in the physical, but a complete and total transformation, where I won't even recognize the old instrument (my old self) again. I am looking forward to the day where all of those imperfections will be worked out and we will all play beautiful music together with no more out of tune days and wrong notes. Oh what a day that will be!