I Love Encouragers
Jubilee had a solo tonight in the music program. I caught her on mpeg on my new digital camera. I don't have very many movies of our older children. Who could afford those things back then. Somtimes I wish I had invested in one anyway...gone into debt. But then I know I would have been tempted to spend my vacation behind a video camera instead of running up the colorado trails with the kids. Since college I have had a SLR Yashica TLelectro X manual 35mm camera I bought used for 30 dollars when I worked in the AV Department. Hey it took great pictures. It just took a litle longer to get it set. I sort of envied those new Nikon and Pentax automatic jobs for a while. But mine still worked well even though I had to fix it one time when it wouldn't trigger my flash. Last year it “gave up the ghost” after 20 years of service. The shutter froze up. Farwell...so I bought a new digital...not top of the line but decent sort of camera. 5 megapixel Canon.
So I caught her on camera...six years old and already a star...high fiving the other soloists as they finished their parts and rejoined the choir. The other day she told mom after playing at the playgound...“Everybody keeps calling my name Jubilee, Jubilee. Everybody knows me. I don't know why. I'm not popular, I'm just a kid!” She was so shy before and now she is coming out of her shell big time. I remember when my mom used to put a stick of gum on the piano so I would play for company (I really did it for the praise). I don't know of anyone who possessed a greater skill or gift of encouragement than my mom. Everyone says Jubilee reminds them of her. Maybe the high fives tonight are a sign of something to come. I hope so, I love encouragers.
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