The Guitar

I got guitar for my little son because he wanted to "worship God". How could I deny him? I don't take him to church so he needs to express himself somehow. I just have this really sinking feeling that I may have started something I do not want to see come to fruition. I mean I love artists as much as anyone but there is this saying "starving artist" that comes to mind. I have an 'artsy' family, mostly musical. Yeah, it skips a generation in case you are wondering if I have any talent. It not only skipped me, it put up a firewall in case I try to access it at any point. So, I look at my cousin who in all rights has a successful band that has toured Europe and has songs in movies and TV shows and think, well he certainly is not starving and he is not famous or anything that might endanger his life but do I really want my son to be a musician? Heck no! I want him to be a doctor like his dad. But when he picks up that little instrument and sings Holy is the Lord along with the Chris Tomlin CD my heart melts. He sings so unselfishly and I am such a greedy pig to want him to be something else. He is only 7 and he cannot play anything but a G chord. I know you are all thinking that he is way to young for me to worry about something like that but let's just say I am a person who does not like surprises and consistently in my life God has shown me things to prepare my anal-rententive ass* (yeah now that made a lot of sense didn't it?) for what lies ahead. I think God is trying to tell me something. Hopefully it is just "Take the boy to church" instead of "put away the scrubs".

* disclaimer- I am aware that a "Godly" person would not cuss in his/her blog. But for all of you self-righteous Christians (not the regular kind that are fully aware of their flaws) please remember God loves me JUST AS I AM and His grace is sufficient to cover a multitude of sins. I just choose to get more mileage out of that grace than most.