It is dark and cold
outside and the rain has been quite consistent since it started this afternoon. I am
waiting for our praise and worship team meeting which starts at 7:30pm tonight.
We are preparing for the Diguna Wednesday evening fellowship. I am leading the
singing tonight and our team is quite small, because I like small music teams. There
is David Tumaini playing the keyboard then Timon and I are playing acoustic
guitar. I am the only one singing on stage tonight and the main reason for this
is that I didn’t think it easy to convince some of my friends on station to
help with the singing, and also because no one else came for practice.
In the meantime, I am
listening to some traditional Luo music and this guy can sing nicely although
the instrumentation is a bit monotonous. He repeats himself a lot, only
changing the last two words of the sentence and whistling in between the song
lines. One can easily guess that there hasn’t been much time taken to write the
lyrics of the song, yet this guy commands quite a following. Some guys take
more time and create really good music. Others simply do whatever people want
to listen to and then become rich.
I wonder what I am,
for music is a natural and fun thing for me to do. I don’t struggle too much to
write songs or think of melodies but I am not as persistent as other people are at
making a life out of music. I sometimes forget that I have a music album. I
need to be reminded and asked about what I intend to do with it and I mostly don’t
have an answer. One thing I am sure about is that it is what God has gifted me
to use to bless those I interact with and so I hope those who know me are
blessed when I sing and play the guitar. How can you be a blessing to those
around you?
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