Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 175 Location: Tampa, FL
Spiritual Growth Catches Me By Surprise Posted: 03-08-06 11:29am
I have changed the type of music I listen
to. I have a modest collection of old
school blues albums (33 1/3 rpm. Lp’s)
well my turntable went on the blink and it
took a while for me to get around to
replacing it. After setting the new one
up, I fished out one of my old favorites,
and spun it up. Johnny winter’s cover
of parchman farm.
As I listened to him singing about his
woman giving him “that old pneumonia
pain” the thought occurred to me as my
mind shifted into sponsor mode… johnny,
my old friend, what part did you play in
that sorry outcome?”
it seems that those old drinkin’ blues,
the ones I used to enjoy so much as I
settled into my old familiar self pity,
just don’t move me like they used to.
I went through a few more… elmore james,
howlin’ wolf, john lee hooker, but it
was the same. It seems that this program,
this notion of being responsible for my
actions won’t let me go back to that old
poor me, poor me, pour me another drink
mindset.
I laughed at the old me that used to take
such comfort in that brand of thinking, as
I slipped the albums back into their
sleeves.
We grow and sometimes that growth catches
us by surprise.
Richard
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fatfamily02
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Jul 2005 Posts: 3050 Location: Georgia, USA
Posted: 03-08-06 11:59am
That is wonderful---yes--i know the trying
to go back to a comfortable place--that we
have grown so accustom to--and we cannot
go back there anymore. It is a wonderful
place to be. .God bless you.
