Block 31

Block 31

is another one

that should have been included

with the earlier

cornet blessing.

I mentioned

with Block 21,

I believe,

that I played French Horn

during the concert season

in high school band.

The blessing,

that goes along with this block is,
"Thank You Lord,

for allowing this left brained person

to play a brass instrument'

that demanded I use

the right side of my brain."

If you have

never played a French Horn,

you do your fingerings

with your left hand,

(all other brass instruments

 are played with the right hand)

as your right hand

mutes the sound

that comes out of the bell.

When the notes

are the same

and the fingerings are the same

but the fingers are on the hand

you have never fingered with

it can be a trip and a half!

Dear Lord,

I forgot to thank you on my cornet blessing for your being with me when I had to hit that note all by myself . . . no one else was playing the "horn" besides me, and if I had missed it,

it would have stuck out like a sore thumb.

I can still see Prof making eye contact with me, using his hand to help me pull the note out and hold it, while his baton hand was directing everyone else, and the big smile he gave me when I actually accomplished it.

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, for being with me and pulling me through.

Amen.