As many of you know, I am not a writer. However, it always turns out somehow that I end up writing. Whether it’s children’s books just because there was a lack of counseling material for young people. I find myself writing now. When my cancer diagnosis came, I shared with Mike and Audrey and they recommended that I journal. I don’t really like to journal, but I started journaling. However, it was very factual and mostly just about the medical portion of my journey. But my friend Cindy, who always likes to get in my business spiritually because she knows me well enough, ha ha, told me that I should journal, even if I was just journaling my prayers. I confessed to her that I did not want to journal because once I open that lid of emotions, everything would come out and I would not have any control anymore. How could I Sort through that mess and then put it all back in the can again nice and neat?. She told me I wouldn’t, but that God would sort it out. She was right. Later, my friend Barbara Ann would show up with her guitar and we would worship together. She mentioned that she remembered us talking in the fall while we were doing some ensemble work together at church that I had mentioned that I had written music. She is a songwriter and I used to teach piano, but I’m really not a songwriter. I just did it for fun as an exercise with my students. But she nudged me gently, and I knew that she was speaking from the Lord. The next time she showed up with her guitar I had penned a few words. She played a few chords and encouraged me just to wing it, and we recorded it. To my surprise, it flowed smoothly. Now remember my voice isn’t anything it used to be since Covid and I was struggling through tears as I sang through my words, but there was healing in that. Maybe the writing isn’t what heals but maybe for me it was the musical part. In the past, my vocals relied on other people‘s words and singing their words. Maybe this time God is pressing me to use my own words, even if they’re just songs between him and me. So in the words of Elsa, let it go.