giving away music

Today in church, we had some wonderful talks. One of the speakers spoke on charity. I was reminded of a wonderful experience in our life and I wanted to record it. Cyndi Hedden, at one point, received or bought a piano. When they moved to san diego, they asked Curtis to hold it for them. Curtis soon found he did not have room for it and asked if we could take it. We didn't really have room, but we got rid of my mom's futon and took the piano. we had it for a while and found that we really didn't want it. It was in pretty bad shape.

We decided to put it up for free on craig's list. Craig's list was an online place to sell and buy things. it was all things close by, like i would search for things in lv or henderson and not have to pay shipping.

Well, we figured it would not get much notice. However, over the next couple of days, we got many responses and stories from people of why they would like this free piano! It was such a shock. We thought of this piano as such a piece of junk! Yet so many people either wanted something to be able to play a little or to be able to teach their kids to play. It really touched our hearts. One lady, buys pianos and fixes them up and gives them away in a much better condition. Another family had a child with autism and another younger son and the son with autism loved music. The family was really wanting to give him lessons, but thought there was no way they could afford both a piano and lessons. We ended up giving it to this family.

This was such a marvelous experience. We were so grateful that we were able to give away to people who cared so much about music and we knew that even in the poor condition the piano was in, it would still be very appreciated.

I am so very grateful for music in my life. We had a piano when i was still a young teenager and I have loved growing up and having the music in our home. I love being able to sing with Trevor and Craig. Heavenly Father has blessed us with talent and i am so very grateful.