For the last eight years, I have been an organist/keyboard accompanist for a number of local churches and choirs. It’s been great and I’ve met wonderful people and learned valuable lessons. Something I realized last weekend is a good life lesson for others, too. Playing in front of numbers of people, often through some sort of sound system, it can be shocking if I strike an incorrect chord. It used to bother me when this would happen. I’d probably grimace and miss the next two or three notes, too, before sloppily recovering. My epiphany last weekend was that it’s not the mistake which matters, but how you recover. Smoothly carrying on without missing a beat pretty much insures that no one (other than the music director) is going to even notice it happened. This is a good life lesson, too. When we make what we think of a a mistake in our daily lives, we can be pretty sure no one else is going to notice. Unless, of course, we call attention to it by nervously giggling and then going on and on explaining something which matters to no one other than ourselves! So my point in telling you this is: lovingly forgive yourself, as you would someone else’s missteps. Be kind to yourself, smile, and carry on!
“Do not allow yourself to suffer from imagined results of what is not true. Free your mind from the belief that this is possible. In its complete impossibility lies your only hope for release. But what other hope would you want? ⁵Freedom from illusions lies only in not believing them. There is no attack, but there is unlimited communication and therefore unlimited power and wholeness. The power of wholeness is extension. Do not arrest your thought in this world, and you will open your mind to creation in God.”
A Course in Miracles T-8.VII.16:1-8
“To be master of chords and discords, the science of music must be understood. Left to the decisions of material sense, music is liable to be misapprehended and lost in confusion. Controlled by belief, instead of understanding, music is, must be, imperfectly expressed.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 304:25-30
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