Musing About Trials (When You lose a Talent You Use to serve the Lord--Why?)

STuesday, October 6, 2009 at 3:24pm
OK, I had a few talents I was using for the Lord, or so I thought--my left hand, for example, I wrote with it, typed, signed my name, played my violin in church, well enough for offertory specials and to play along with the congregation (which I really enjoy), and, being somewhat ambidextrous, I was almost as strong with my left hand as with my right, and pretty handy around the house and in the garden and helping out on church work days. My vocal chords had some talents I used for the Lord (singing, talking), but they have been rather slow to recover from intubation, I can barely manage the entire bass clef and my breath support is shot. I taught at the college, of course, taught Adult Bible Fellowship at Church for years, sang in choir, sang duets with my wife, and sang quartets and other specials. All of that has been taken away, and some of it is questionable whether it will come back (violin playing, handwriting). This is the only area of my trial where I have asked "Why?" "Why were my main talents taken?" It's not because I wasn't using them, I was fairly active in vocal and instrumental special music. Comments welcome. One of my colleagues at the college with a beautiful voice lost it to a malady of some sort, I must talk to him about this.