A Good Day

I've been having a lovely day, and I wanted to share.

As I'm sure you either know or have surmised- life has been very busy/stressful lately. I rarely feel like my head is screwed on correctly. My recital is this Saturday, and while I'm very excited for it and everyone coming to it, it has been a lot of work. In particular, my weekends have suffered. Instead of serving their function of catchup and recuperation for the coming week they have been devoted to preparation for my recital and other work that needed to get done. So today's being unexpectedly wonderful is a blessing that will not be taken for granted.

So to begin with, last night I had a lovely conversation with a friend about him coming to God which was really wonderful because while he has been involved with our Evensong since arriving at Ithaca College he didn't actually believe...so I'm very glad to hear that things have changed. Also my plans for rehearsal last night for my recital did not happen. But steps to prepare for a better rehearsal today did. So I woke up earlier than planned to meet with someone to go over the newest preparation of that music since last night's rehearsal didn't happen. First he was late, which worked out well cause I was a little late and I had other stuff I wanted to do before we met anyway. So I got to take care of that business and chill for a little bit and had a very entertaining phone call with him while he was so flustered he was entirely incoherent but said he'd meet me soon. Then when he got there we went through the music and it was fun and wonderful and he totally relieved all my concerns about whether or not that stuff would come together.

Naturally, I left the room singing the last song we worked on quite loudly and walking down the hall oddly and who should I run into but my boss who was walking out of a room and upon seeing me turned right around and walked back in. haha. I couldn't ask for a better boss. Then I went to my class for today which was wonderful and we actually discussed an extended technique that my friends and I were messing around with this past Friday night...I felt dorky but exhilarated remembering the good times we had recording Friday for a christian rock album.

Post-theory I went to the pub as par usual for some lunch and possibly meeting up with my parkie friend since he usually happens to bump into me around then. I first got Grab 'n Go and noticed that on my way from the Grab 'n Go entrance to the pub every single door was held open for me and I thought that was odd but good (you know how I like the little things) When I got to the pub I had the pleasant surprise of bumping into one of my christian friends that I've been getting to know lately. We sat down and had a FANTASTIC conversation that I really really really really REALLY needed to have. We talked about God and our friends and the good stuff with God lately and the tough stuff with friends and...I knew recently that I really needed a conversation like that and...God just made it happen :-) He knew I needed to hear that voice and hear the things he had to say.

Have you been listening to God lately? how has He been speaking to you?

I love you all. Please pray for me and my friends as the year comes to a close and everyone traveling to see my recital this Saturday!!!