Is This It?
It has now been ten years since I first received my call as elementary school teacher. Back then, it seemed like I had my whole career ahead of me. I knew exactly how it would go: Teach in a school while doing a little bit of music stuff, Teach in a school and do a bunch of music in the church and school, Be the music person in a church and school full-time, Compose a bunch of stuff while being the music person in a church or school, Be published in a hymnal that will be sung by thousands of people for years to come, and Conduct a really, really good choir at the WELS Worship Conference before retiring. Spend the rest of my years RV-ing around the country. But God has other plans. I mean, God knows everything, so he knew my plans were futile. As a matter of fact, he probably laughed at my plans when I would think about them! God knows best. And after ten years of thinking I was on the right track, I realized I wasn’t. So how can that be? Didn’t I get a