Slowly, this consistent practice of spending 1-3 hours every day in a book of scripture moved me from a mind to a heart focus - and it wasn’t something I made happen except for the fact that I kept showing up.

Yet, these ways continue to leave me hungry and empty. I can’t live up to the expectations of others. Or my own.

As Paul writes in Galatians that it is for freedom that Christ set us free (Galatians 5:1) and so the music of heaven is that of freedom. Being surrounded by this music, my spirit isn’t worried or let down.

With such a view, I can hold individual outcomes lightly. I can stop obsessing. I can live and engage with each day’s work. In looking at eternity, I am free to try and fail, and then to start again.