Meaningful Monday

I have planned to spend every Monday (which is my official off-day) catching up on my personal growth as both a beloved child and servant (musician) of God.

This Monday has been awesome.

Met up with Jun for lunch. She is Ji's beautiful younger sister - very passionate about life and very hungry for God. I am grateful for this opportunity to eat with her before she goes off to UK to further her studies. It was refreshing and inspiring.

I spent the afternoon doing my revision on the instruments of the orchestra.

While the information from this book used to be my "staple" back when I was still sitting for music exams, it still helps me now - especially with my worship leading and keyboard-playing in church (hopefully with teaching in the future too). It is important to know the instruments as well as their pitch ranges well, if I am to use the "sounds" in the Clavinova or plan the song repertoires for my worship teams. Therefore, I am extremely thankful that I could finish reading this book in one seating today, uninterrupted. I supplemented the concise points from this book with music history notes. It is my desire to not only serve God better with all these knowledge - but to ultimately know Him deeper. To fellowship with Him while I explore the different eras of music and the contributions of Christian musicians. To enrich my discernment of how He still engages with His created world today through the development of music with time. To listen to His heartbeat through the assimilation of conclusions drawn through my studies. If I am to be God's musican, may I be one who is passionate, focused, sensitive to His voice... and loves Him with all her heart, mind, soul and strength.

Next on my reading list: "Theology, Music and Time" by Jeremy S. Begbie. A book introduced, recommended and lent to me by Dr. S.

Anyway...

In the evening (post-dinner), I met up with a few seminary friends at Straits Quay and we engaged in a 2-hour discussion on certain theological matters. Of course, we weren't quite so rigid - we did digress at times (short moments) to share our hearts and struggles. Over-all, it was really fun yet edifying fellowship. I look forward to the next meeting.

My lovely day was wrapped up with some TLC from Ben upon arriving home.