Tonight... okay... Okay. Well. Okay... Right now... Okay. The Lord doesn't want me to talk so openly about the music I play for Him just yet, so I wont mention the music. I was talking to my mum about a conversation I had with Luke. Luke was saying how I might get better than my dad with guitar, even though I've never heard him play. So then I told my mum, yeah, Luke and I think the Lord wants me to get better than my dad. Then, I told her I'd tried reaching Eric so I could talk to him about my grandfather's guitar playing, but the line was always disabled, then the phone number it would redirect me to was always busy.
So something told her to say, "Well you know, we still have one of the old records in the garage." So I went in there and in the old liquor-bar...
I fingered around in there for a second, then grabbed a handful of records among a hundred or so records, and then yelled to my mum to make her believe, "Found it!" Then... "Just kidding!" Because she said, "Oh come on, you don't expect to just go in there and instantly find it," because there were so many. And I didn't think I did.
Then I took a look at the records in my hand, and lo and behold, there it was! I was so amazed, because I knew then that it was by holy appointment from above that I go off into this side quest and discover one of my dad's songs, and just before I played it, the melody popped into my head! I could remember the music, not having heard it since I was 5, and now being able to sing it after hearing the title of the song, "Azania."
Azania is an African name that my dad used to mean freedom of South Africa from some sort of slavery.
I played the song, and I could hear the same slow-speeched man that would call me son over the phone long distances singing with a lot of passion and soul, and it was almost as if it wasn't him.
It was like...indescribable... After 16 years ago... to hear what my dad did back then. And to know what the Lord's trying to do for me now...
I can't say much, but I am truly amazed, and supremely and absolutely humbled. And delighted! And with joy I'm going to train to praise the Lord Jesus Christ's name.
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