I learned how to sing in
Ft. Worth, Texas from the Music Director at University Baptist Church.

Joe King was was strict, expected perfection and usually got it from all of the Choirs he directed.

He once walked out in disgust because we, the Junior High choir, were not getting it right.

He taught posture, projection, enunciation and the importance of using the diaphragm muscles correctly to project sound

He had some of us practice lying down and popping a ping pong ball off of our stomachs up into the air to understand how to use the diaphragm muscles properly.

Try it.

It works.

Sound needs to be projected to be heard.

We became a great choir.

I became a decent singer and part of that very good group.

My voice was fairly good.

I sang a few solos and duets.

My voice could waiver a bit and was not as firm on each individual pitch or note …..
as it was when my voice paired with another voice equal to or stronger than mine.

I sounded really good when I was part of a duet or trio.
When I harmonized with another …

I was a better singer.

Harmony improved me.

Harmony is unity, connection…relationship.

Harmony is the goal of our spiritual journey.

The One Who sets the melody and paid for the right to do so asks me to harmonize my voice with his and become more than I could be on my own.

He saw a very good and strong
“soloist” who would get off key and get the notes all wrong in Peter.

JESUS saw a zealous and energetic
“vocalist” who thought he had perfect pitch, but Saul was singing the exact opposite notes that Christ led him to carry after meeting him on the road to Damascus…. and changing his name, his mission and his voice.

Peter and Paul, after coming into contact with THE REAL DIRECTOR of the choir we are all singing in,
hit the correct notes,
carried the perfect pitch.

After harmonizing their voices and lives with JESUS …
they became fulfilled vocalists.

My voice,
my life….

are not what they could be attempting to solo the song intended for me.

It is only in HARMONY with the ONE
Who made me

and it is in the harmonizing of the
voice and life given to me with HIS…

that the already written music of my existence is properly sung.

HARMONY is our spiritual goal.

Harmony with The ONE WHO
not only sings with us….
but directs the eternal and
very large choir we are all singing in.

All of life is about HARMONY.

My early life was full and in perfect harmony with my parents, grandparents and my brothers.

The business I am in is better because I am in harmony with one partner who knows more than I do and another who is better at some things than am I.

My personal life is a blessing because since 1990 I have been walking in harmony with a woman God had in store for me.

Perfect harmony was intended, and present in The Garden.

It was interrupted.

HARMONY is what we were created for.

No solos.