Acoustic Resistance

I have been reading a book called "The War of Art" that has really inspired me in a lot of areas. If you are a musician, artist, writer, or aspire to be one, I highly recommend this book! Anyway...the first few chapters have been talking about "resistance". The book describes resistance as the unseen force that keeps any creative person from fulfilling and walking in their creativity. It is that thing that keeps you from sitting down and doing what you feel yourself being drawn to do. It says that if you can get yourself to sit down and begin painting, begin playing, begin writing...then you have already beaten resistance. Every single one of us has something that we aspire to do or be, and resistance is probably what is keeping us from getting to it.

For several months, I believe that this resistance has kept my acoustic guitar in it's case.

Today I decided to beat resistance.

I'm pretty excited. I need to have patience though and realize that I won't be able to play fluently after just an hour of practice.

I believe that God has given me some natural ability, and a natural ear in the area of music.

I really don't want to let that go to waste!

I hope to become more of an asset to the Rock Church praise and worship team as I learn to play guitar.

So now, with bright red, throbbing fingertips, I'm signing off. Will keep ya posted!