The beauty of time (and how it repeats itself!)

When I was a freshman in High School, I was invited to join my first Youth Choir, the Chapel Choir of First Baptist Church in Mineola, Texas. Little did I know how my life would be changed forever by that one single invitational act of friendship, love and kindness.

My, how we worked and worked...and it was such an awesome group. Funny, I can still see faces around that small choir room...there were only about 35 of us, but everyone loved each other, loved our Music Minister, loved a challenge and loved to sing (and we did it VERY well).

My first Tour with the Chapel Choir was in the summer of 1981, and we went to Colorado. Yes, we stopped and sang at points along the way (how could I ever forget a town named Dumas, Texas?!). But obviously, one of the highlights of the Tour was traveling to Colorado Springs and singing in the Chapel of the United States Air Force Academy.

Fast forward 27 years...and I am making yet another trip to the Academy Chapel...that beautiful, inspiring achitectural wonder of near acoustic perfection. Only this time, I make it not as the singer, but as the director of a large number of students who, like myself, have no idea what God has in store for them, or how their lives will be changed.

And one of those who will be singing is my own son.

Time has a funny way of repeating itself, doesn't it? The follower becomes the leader, the ministered becomes the minister, the son becomes the dad, the inspired becomes the inspiration, the receiver becomes the giver.

What a blessed life I have...I have been poured into, only now to realize that I find inexpressible joy when I pour back.

And I am somewhat in awe of the blessing that time does (at times!) repeat itself.