// 5 line poem //

You touched my heart

the way that no one had before.

And when you touched my soul,

I knew that I never, ever

wanted to let you go.

-a.v.g. 

piano & faith

I was playing the piano the other day, and just for fun I decided to get out some of my old piano pieces that I hadn't played in a while. I knew that I would not be able to play them with as much skill as I had when I first learned them, but I was not expecting to be as bad at them as I was. As my fingers stumbled over the keys and worked to remember the notes that they once played so easily, my mind wandered a bit (as it usually does), and I began thinking about how our faith is similar to playing the piano. Our faith is something that should be continuously growing and becoming stronger. Faith isn't something you can "take a break from". Faith is constant, faith should never falter. We can't just put God on the shelf for a while and then come back to him later and expect to pick up where we left off. With piano pieces, you can't put them on a shelf, pull them off a couple months later and expect to just pick it up where you left off. No, you have to re-learn the things that you already learned in the past. I think it's like that with our Christian faith, too. If you put God on the shelf for a while, you're going to backslide and that means that later, when you come back, you're going to have to re-climb the steps that you already took in your faith, you're going to have re-learn what you had already learned. Leaving God on the shelf for a while does you no good. In fact, it does you harm, because instead of being able to progressive in your Christian walk, you have to re-walk the steps that you already took earlier.