If you’re feeling overwhelmed by an unknown future, you’re not alone. And here’s a little something I learned from my acoustic guitar about facing an unknown future:
Once, when I was playing my guitar and I noticed how the music that comes from this instrument doesn’t just come from the guitar’s body itself, the part that I can see.
The music actually rises from that dark hollowed out place behind the string, the place that I can’t see so well.
This caused me to pause and wonder:
What if it’s okay if the future doesn’t always feel bright? What if, in the darkness of the unknown, I could trust: the music will still rise up the way it was meant to?
Perhaps.
the hollowed-out
shadowy heart
of the acoustic guitar
teaches us this:
even when we feel overwhelmed
by a future that seems dim,
right here, in these unknowns,
melodies can still have their say.
From the darkest place of the instrument, the music plays.
