Daddy’s Girl James 1:2-4 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. Father’s Day usually doesn’t evoke any emotion from me. My father passed away in 2004, and when he died, we were estranged. The crazy part is that I was a daddy’s girl growing up. I looked like him; I acted like him. I inherited his love to read. He had a large library and I could read whatever book I wanted. He taught me how to play chess (I don’t remember anything now 😀 ) He tried to teach me how to dance but I was awful (wouldn’t let him lead lol). He loved music and had all different kinds of albums (country, jazz, pop, etc.) that he let me listen to. He was a Pastor, but he allowed me to listen to all types of music which is why my music style is so eclectic. He used to take me to the theater and introdu
beautifully flawed Jeremiah 18:4 | And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. September 22, 2020 Back in the 90s I was the Assistant Minister of Music at a church. I had my choirs and I LOVED what I was doing. However, the Pastor told me that I would never be the Minister of Music because I was a woman and I didn’t play the organ. Funny thing is I had been playing and directing choirs since I was 12. When I came to Howard Univ., the 1 st thing I did was find a church to play for and I have stayed employed as a church musician ever since. Never once did I have a complex about NOT playing the organ nor did I have a problem because I was a woman. Truth is, at the time, I really didn’t want to be a Minister of Music but the reality was, I was doing the job in the background and quite effectively might I add. So now all of a sudden I had a complex about this organ thing