We Don’t Have To Quit

All of us have moments when we feel we are all done, but we don’t have to quit. One of those times is retirement. We think we are finished with doing something we have been doing for many years and now we can sit down in the sunshine and relax. However, we have many years when we can do much for our fellow man. Let me tell you about one man who never gave up.

I was the choir director in the church and one Sunday and I was listening for voices which I would like to have in my choir. I kept hearing the same tenor voice but I couldn’t place him. After the service one day, a lady came up to me and asked if her husband could join the choir. I said sure, we’d love to have him so I gave her the date and time of our next rehearsal but I was wondering why the husband didn’t ask.

The following Wednesday night as we were passing out the music we would be learning, the same lady came into the church with her husband. He was holding on to her arm and seemed to be blind. I wondered how he could possibly learn the music. The choir needed the sheet music even on the day they sang!

I introduced him to the choir and he said he was a tenor, so I led him to the tenor section and rehearsal began. He didn’t sing at first but after a while, he joined in. HIS WAS THE VOICE! I wondered how he could learn the anthems and decided to ask him, thinking his wife would learn them and he would learn from her. He whipped out a recorder and that became his teacher. He recorded the tenor notes and the words. He knew all the anthems before the rest of the members were close to learning them.

He had a disability but didn’t let that interfere with his singing. No matter what your problem is, you don’t have to quit! Whether it is your age or something is ailing you, there is something you can do that will be a big help to someone else. Don’t ever give up!