Rachel and Piano
Rachel loves playing piano and has always been interested in learning. (We have photos of her at 4 months banging on a keyboard.)
This last year through a total God thing (Essie made friends with a piano teacher’s daughter who also had a son just a little younger than Issac) Rachel started taking lessons. Chris, the piano teacher, charges less than the other teachers in the area and is lovely and laid back– which makes her a perfect match for Rachel. The downside was that due to our current financial position (living on what God provides instead of a regular paycheck) we still couldn’t afford the lessons.
So she had to stop but that hasn’t stopped her from practicing what her teacher had taught her, getting a full size keyboard with pedal (another gift from God) so she can play right and going each Friday to practice on a real piano at my mother-in-law’s church. Plus, occasionally her teacher would ask her to come babysit during lessons and give her a lesson as well.
Well, this week her teacher asked her to come babysit regularly so she could have regular lessons, offered to pick her up each week, AND someone donated the next level up of books so she can move on to the next set.
Rachel was tickled pink! God is so amazing! We are so very blessed.
That’s wonderful, Heather! My boys want to learn piano, too, but we don’t have one anymore. I asked my choir director at church this week, and she said we could come almost any time and use one of the SIX we have there! I haven’t figured out when to squeeze it in, but I’ll teach them myself. So exciting!