On A Roll!
Well, now that I have a bit more time, I seem to really be on a roll with these entries here! Maybe this will continue. I reckon it will, at least for a while yet. Perhaps it’s because it is a novel concept. Or maybe because I enjoy writing and this gives me an outlet to do so. Whatever the case may be, here is yet another entry into the annals of my life. 
Today was another good day. I enjoy being able to finally have some time to get organized and do some administrative kinds of things at work. Not that I don’t love working with the students, but I also like to be able to be prepared as I go into the classes and rehearsals! I have begun to look at Christmas concert type music and am finding a few pieces that might be fun to do this year. We have a performance next week and then I’ll pass out Christmas music after that. We also will be taking the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students to the high school football game in a couple of weeks. That should be a lot of fun for the kids, and it will be neat to be able to see nearly 250+ children with instruments up in the stands there to play!
Also on the horizon are all region auditions for both high school and middle school. The MS auditions are in a few weeks, and the HS auditions are right around the beginning of December. We’re working with individuals on that stuff and hope to be able to have a decent number of kids make those bands. The goal is to have more than last year.
So much on my mind and yet, here I sit realizing that my focus is really not where it ought to be after all! So much on my mind and yet, how many of my thoughts are centered on those things that God would have me look to. I know that having the band program run smoothly is important, but do I overfocus on it to the point that I ignore the more vital things in life? I fear that I do that. Focus is becoming a very important word for this school year. Focus is what I am realizing that I lack, or do not have set correctly. Am I truly “looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher” of my faith? Sometimes I am. Sometimes I am not. Oh God, that my focus would be right all of the time. I want to be able to say with Jesus, “I do only those things which please the Father.” I want that. I want to want that more!
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