We're Piano People Now

We entered a new stage of life today. Kim and I took a ride through the beautiful Pennsylvania countryside to the little village of Marion Center (population 428) with our friend Kim to pick up a piano. We’ll be piano-sitting for the next few years, as she has no place to keep it. In the meantime, we get the joy of having a piano for our 3 kids to learn on!

We love music. It’s a big part of our life already, and our kids are involved in a children’s musical theatre group (Broadway Showkids). We’ve seen some great things happen in our kids as they’ve been challenged to learn lines and parts, as they’ve shared to joy of bringing a production to life. They’re already pretty comfortable performing in front of people. Our house is never boring, and seldom quiet!

We are doing our best to make sure that our kids realize that their identity is not found in their activities, though. That can be a challenge. So many people have bought into the lie that who they are is rooted in what they do. It’s just not true.

We want to see our children set free from that mindset, free to live in the reality that their identity is rooted in their relationship with the Most High God.

It doesn’t matter if or how well they sing, dance, play or study. All that is gravy. What does matter is that they learn to love God with everything they have, and that they love other people. If we can get our lives re-ordered around those simple precepts, everything else falls into line. Not easy, but simple, I know.

That’s what I tell them almost every night when I tuck them into bed.