Stories

The “ding” of different notes comes distantly from the room upstairs as the guitar students practice. Each taking their half an hour after their tutoring time to practice what they learned in class. Slowly we can start to hear songs make their way out of the mix of chords and the students can hear their dedication paying off. Requests to start to come Christmas love songs come from the teenagers as we near the holidays and the excitement grows as they hear songs they know coming from their own hands.

 

The newer class started only a couple weeks ago is the piano. The teacher sits with two students next to her and in different octaves practicing scales and short melodies. Then they rotate and the next two come and sit.

 

Music, like a new language builds new bridges in the mind and can communicate things we cannot say with words. The feelings and emotions that are held deep down. The ones we were created to express since we are made in the image of God.

Many times these things that need to be expressed, to keep moving forward with hope for a future. Music changes and music inspires. Remember how many times you’ve been in a dark place and were lifted by a song or just the sound of the music. It has power and a power that can deliver a message. As we work to raise up messengers of change a freedom, it’s another tool we can give them to move forward and dream for a future.