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I have played the piano for most of my life, but not having a teacher for most of that time has meant that I sort of leveled out and now almost hate to admit that I play. Its a sad truth especially since I love playing. Anyway over the last few months I have thought frequently, "I need to play more, I need to make time to practice, I want the boys to see me play and have a desire in their own hearts for music and creating music", but that is all the further it went, thoughts and more thoughts but no actions. The last couple of weeks those thoughts have been almost constant and I look at my piano everyday and wonderful how I am going to find the time.

While I was at my parents house over Easter my brothers and I were practicing the song Mom asked us to sing with her choir and I sat down to plunk out the song. I mentioned then to my brothers, that I really wanted to get my skills back up and one of them asked "what are you going to do?" my reply "I don't know". 2 days later I knew.

I have been released from my calling as primary chorister (in church, this means leading the young children 3-11 years in music). I have been called as the primary pianist. I am a little sad to hand over the directorship and I really looked forward to the program in the fall, but I know that I have had a desire and here is the answer. I have to practice, even though it is just little children (who may or may not listen) I want to play my best, not just wing it for them. I can wing leading and conducting I love the primary songs so I can wing the singing, but playing the piano is a totally different story and I am excited to get my skills up, anything is up, and have a reason to need to find the time to sit down and play, because once I sit down to practice I can pull out any music and learn knew songs, or remember old ones and hopefully the boys will soon want to join me.