God Helped Me Pick

I'm a firm believer that God cares about us in both BIG matters and >>small<< matters. I don't know how many times in my life that I've had a little thing concerning me, that I took to Him in prayer, and He helped me. I've seen it over and over.


I'm also a firm believer that God looks out for us in ways that we need, that we may not be aware of yet. Again, both in BIG matters and >>small<<.


Yesterday was time for me to take a turn at playing offeratory at church. I spent the previous 2 or 3 weeks mulling over what to play, picking a piece, then practicing it. It went well yesterday, God is good to help me be better about focusing and not getting so *nervous.*


But yesterday was VERY INTERESTING.


Back up to where I was weighing two different pieces earlier, trying to decide which one I'd play. I wanted to play "O Holy Night," as that's one of my favorite songs. The piano arrangement I have is fairly easy to play, but there was a certain thing about it where I just felt "not quite confident" in a place or two. Probably with a lot of practice I could've done it, but my nerves kind of kept edging in about it.


So I looked in some more books, and found one I'd done 15 (!!!) years ago in a recital, "Silent Night! Holy Night!" It's got enough to it that it's not that simple, but yet it's not that hard, either. So since it seemed the easier of the two, and I'd done it before (albeit 15 YEARS AGO), I went with it.


So ... yesterday morning's church service came along. In our order of service, we have a thing called "congregational contribution." It's like doing a special, but you can do anything. Music, read, talk, just "whatever." Each family takes a turn at some point in the year. Came time for the contribution, which is IMMEDIATELY before the offeratory. A lady and her son and daughter got up to sing. The pianist started the introduction to ... "O Holy Night." I gasped to myself, and burst out laughing hysterically on the inside --- all the while thinking, "OH, MAN, I'M GLAD I DIDN'T PICK 'O HOLY NIGHT' TO PLAY!!!!!!!!" I could just imagine if they went through all that song and all its verses ... then I immediately got up to play the offeratory, and started in AGAIN on "O Holy Night." REDUNDANT CITY!


So I figure God was looking out for me, helping me pick the piece I needed to, so we wouldn't have "too much of a good thing."