{"id":1376,"date":"2019-10-21T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T23:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2019-10-20T16:17:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T22:17:17","slug":"unexpected-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1376","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I just want to share a happy surprise we gave ourselves last week…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story starts with our record collection we’ve had from the early days of marriage. We used to listen to them, first on a console record player (remember those?) and then a component system. At some point, the turntable quit working, and there we were with records and no way to play them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, by that time we had CDs, but we kept some of the records, moving them at least three times. I bought equipment to digitize them, but it didn’t work. So there they sat. Most recently, they were living in a cabinet in the garage until I rearranged and had no room for them. I was going to give them away; after all, it had been over 20 years since we’d listened to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as I was sorting them to donate or give to a friend or whatever, I kept finding records I didn’t want to get rid of! At the same time, June was looking at a catalog and found…wait for it…a portable record player! We said, “Why not? Instead of trying to digitize the records, why not just listen to them!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the little record player arrived, and we played a few tracks of music that took us back to the early years of our marriage. June said, “I feel like I’ve been to another world!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the records and the little record player fit neatly onto a shelf in the den and occupy the corner of a small table when in use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The little record player<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Is there a point? I’m not sure except sometimes the simplest solutions are the best, and God graciously gives us unexpected joys! Also, music is powerful. Gary Jansen, writing in Microshifts<\/a>, says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When my wife and I are feeling lethargic or down, we’ll hit the road for an hour in a car and just listen to our favorite upbeat music. It’s enough to inspire and press reset on a dull day.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And we forget that the ability to listen to music on any medium has been around only since 1877 when Edison invented the phonograph. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

…God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. (1 Timothy 6.17, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of heaven. The gifts are rivers of light cascading down from the Father of Light. There is nothing deceitful in God, nothing two-faced, nothing fickle. (James 1.17, MSG)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psalm 150:3-6 (ESV)
3  Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp!
4  Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!
5  Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!
6  Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD! <\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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