Not Often Enough

Do you tell your family and friends EVER that you love them? That you appreciate them? I want to tell all my friends and acquaintances that they are loved. Here’s a sweet old song by Henry Mancini I recorded this year for you.

Kinda takes you back to high school, right? Oooh, those could be great days or troubled days, depending on who you hung around with. Being in choir, I enjoyed myself thoroughly and loved making music with Loren Squires et al at Burnsville High School in Minnesota. We did a couple of musicals and I received the honor of being Maria in the Sound of Music and Marian in Music Man. I played opposite some wonderful singers. Music was all important to me and I began to find my identity in it. But not often enough did I think about eternal things.

However, I longed for more. Something was missing. I found it when I went to college as a music major in Texas. My friend Rich kept singing about Jesus and I was so intrigued I asked him to tell me more and more. Then it was oh so natural to commit my life to Him. My music took on a whole new angle. I thought I would end up on the musical stage, but as I grew, and especially now as I look back, I realize that type of life never could have been meant for me. I’m a bit more contemplative than a career of that fashion would allow. I love teaching and writing and singing and taking walks where I sing to my Creator. I am delighted with more than music. The ‘not often enough’ turned into ‘all the time’ as I learned to demonstrate to others how I love and appreciate them.

What’s your ‘not often enough?’