dailydatewithgod

For those of you who remember vinyl records, you’ll remember how miraculous it was that a needle read lines grooved on a piece of plastic and played the song through the speakers on the stereo.  The grooves were an easy way to tell when it was moving from one song to another.  It was terribly annoying if the needle got stuck in a groove and kept repeating over and over a small portion of the song. In other words for the song to play full-out, the needle had to be able slide smoothly along the grooves.  We too have grooves in our mind, our bodies, even our hearts.  They are the patterns by which we are able to see and hear the music of our lives.  Life has a rhythm and a cadence and it is all going according to plan until the needle skips a groove or someone touches the record too closely and causes the needle to skip forward or get stuck in a groove. This meant in order to hear the song, you had to buy another record or play a different one.  It is not like a cassette tape or CD that could be easily recorded over again. The question is what kind of grooves do we have in place in our lives that need to be interrupted or broken?  What grooves when opened us up to be willing to play a different music?  Do you like the music of your life?  Are their records we are still playing no matter how worn the grooves are? In order to determine where the music of our lives is getting its cues, we have to look at the grooves we are operating within.  Change is sustained by switching grooves.  God invites us to quiet our minds and connect to the grooves, to listen to what they are really telling us and determine if they are still useful.  Some of them were placed by family and society and no longer play the kind of music of who we are in our lives today.  As adults we get to choose the grooves go under the needle and play the music of our lives.