It's all a matter of focus
Conductor in an orchestra rehearsal. Found this photo on Flickr by Jorge Franganillo We just had a retreat this weekend where we worked on music for our Christmas presentation. It may be corny but I always seem to notice the parallels in my life experience to what God's word teaches. As we worked together to learn the music we were nearing the close of our efforts Saturday afternoon. We were completely running through all the music that we had worked on. And, of course, watching the director brought us to the end together. But there was one piece in particular where our horns were lagging, the choir was churning out the notes, and I bet we had about four different tempos going on. As I watched our director increase the size of his pattern, move to get our attention and energize his efforts to make us all realize ... we are out of synch! We were not together! WATCH ME! He didn't say a word but I thought what a fantastic picture of the body of Christ. Without a wor