Mary stared up at the sight reading projected on the board. She was in her first period choir class and they were preparing for UIL in the next semester. She remembered competing in UIL the year before and was very familiar with the process. She was also pretty good at sight reading, but so far, this year, her sight reading and focus had gone down the drain. Her vowels were no longer tall or proper and she kept forgetting different hand signs when singing solfege. As the teacher counted and they began to sight read the simple looking piece of music. Mary felt confident and was thankful for the solfege being written in on some of the unusually high notes, but she began to mess up on the second line. She stared at a single quarter note thoughtfully, trying to figure out which syllable it was, but she couldn't and just took a guess, singing a random note. Mary blushed when she realized the syllable had been written in below the note. If I had just looked for the help, I would've gotten it, she thought. Thank God I'm not singing alone.
Moral: Have you ever overlooked something and totally messed up, but realized later that the thing you overlooked was there to help you? I have- I did it this morning! I was in choir and the same thing I just wrote about above happened to me. I knew they wrote the solfege (which for those of you who don't know, solfege is the "Do Re Mi" sort of thing. It's how we sing our scales and learn pitches, kind of like letters on a staff.) in on the notes that we wouldn't know from memory, but for some reason I overlooked it. That's how some people are about God or the Bible. They overlook God thinking that He can't help, or overlook Him without realizing it. Even as Christians, we may overlook the power the Holy Spirit has within us and the things He can do for us. Always look to God for help and you will receive help according to His Will! You never know when it could be exactly what you need!
