Only God

Only God

     One of my best friends recently told me, "Robyn, you have to tell that story!"  So here I am telling…when God does something only He could do, yes, we are compelled to tell it.  After my year of "recuperation" from homeschooling, I found myself needing to increase my work hours.   I had been praying for months that God would increase my piano students to 20 ; over three times more than last year.  He didn't.  Why didn't God answer my prayer?  

     Last year  I did  some volunteering at Wake Med Rehab in Fuquay-Varina.  I started by playing the piano during lunchtime and one guy asked me to sing.  I told him I could not because I would need a microphone.  That wasn't the whole truth, but it sounded good; in fact, I was too embarrassed to sing alone.  I can carry a tune, but always sang with a group in the past.  Some time later a different  man in a wheelchair asked me to sing.  How could I keep refusing to sing for people who could not walk or even feed themselves?  Feeling guilty, I reluctantly agreed.  To my surprise,  they loved it and began to sing with me every week before and after lunch was served.     

     We had many monthly recitals there;  a woman my age began singing at the last four or five.  I continued to play at Wake Med until they closed in August, moving all the residents to other facilities.   Needing another place for our recitals I called some other assisted living communities.  In the process of scheduling I discovered that they hire people to do activities with the residents.  I did some fast thinking on the phone, and offered to play piano and lead singing.  They took me up on it!   After years of taking students to assisted living centers,  I now have five facilities that have hired me to lead hymn singing and I love it!  It takes me way out of my comfort zone, and I often have perspiration rolling down my back, but it's the best job in the world--and the best thing about it is that I get to talk about God in between songs.   Hymns are the gospel message we are to be sharing with the world.

      I recently told Rachel that I would love to combine ministry and work--bingo!   God did answer my prayer, just not the way I thought He should... It's not important that I don't have a solo voice--What I lack in talent, I make up for in enthusiasm!  "God does not call the quailfied, He qualifies the called."  Praise God for the ultimate job!