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the concerto changes tempo, but the Composer knows where it is going / 11.13.08, 11:10 AM
this is the life.
this city is beautiful- wondrous, even, and even better is the fact that it is constantly changing. the buildings on my way to work vary in size, age, damage, and story. each one of them holds something new every day. one of my favorite spots is in the wreckage between two brick buildings. the bottom floor has been completely gutted out, and dense foliage is starting to break through concrete and stone. wood hangs down from the half-destroyed floor above, and light breaks through like fingers to touch the floor below. this was once a building, a place of bustling commerce; now this building is only a place of silence and serenity, full of nature and consistent change.
when i first walked into urban impact leadership academy, i was greeted with apprehensive looks and distrust from the students. it makes sense that this would be the first impression, after all, i was intruding on their time, their space and their normalcy. i was the foreigner. the first couple of weeks were uncomfortable. to be sure, i felt out of place and out of element.
then conversations started to take place, and even yesterday, i found myself playing basketball after lunch with a mr. kentrell mcgee, one of the students at uila.
“alright, here’s what i’m going to do,” he said, bouncing the ball from one hand to the other.
“okay.” i responded
“i’m going to go to the right.”
“uh-huh.”
“then i’m going to fake left.”
“uh-huh.”
“then i’m going to take it to the right and score.”
“okay.”
“right now.”
he started to the right, and i followed him. then he faked to the left, though for a time much shorter than i was expecting, and shot back to the right. he blazed past me, and took it to the hoop.
he did exactly what he said he was going to do, yet i interpreted things by my standards, and got left behind. kentrell laughed, and i smiled sheepishly.
“good game.”
i got my butt kicked at basketball, but i now have a relationship with one of the students. we’ll probably play again today.
i know that this blog has gone in many directions, but it’s just like music, or even life, isn’t it?
the notes change, the melody lilts and lifts and goes one way that leads the ear to one conclusion, and then suddenly there is a shift and the music is headed again in a different direction.
i may think that i know where this concerto is going,
but G-d has the music in front of Him.
“The mind of man plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.” -Proverbs 16:9
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