Defining moments…
I picked up his well-worn bass case, running my fingers across the stickers - each one of which could tell a story – and stopped on this one…..It reads ‘Visitor 12/14/12 Robert Pope’. And the memories of that day come rushing back, breaking into a wave that crashes onto the shore.
I talked with him just the other night at Open Mic, and we reminisced about that day only two years ago, but what seems like a lifetime away.
myDarlin' Robert Kenui Pope called me as he pulled into the parking deck, something that he had done multiple times, so much so as they knew his truck and his voice at the secured entry. I met him at the main entrance, as he came through the glass doors with his bass in hand. Grinning from ear to ear, he felt so privileged that they (not the proverbial they – but they my co-workers) asked him to play with them…. We stopped at the security desk where he signed in and received this sticker. How were we all to know that it was God’s very own hand that placed the sticker in Robert’s and our lives would never be the same.
After the Open Mic on the patio, we loaded out, and he stayed behind a bit – and told me how much that day meant to him, how it changed his life and his wife’s as well.
myDarlin' took the stage along with the other musicians for an afternoon Christmas party. He smiled that huge smile of his, as he played and looked out over the audience. And he took his spot next to me as I sat in the front row (always best for photographs), and we listened to the husband and wife duo sing ‘Harvest Moon’ so beautifully together.
And when it was all over and we were all putting chairs and tables away, myDarlin’ and I invited our new friends to the Open Mic, and thus began the change in their lives…. and ours. And he and his lovely wife joined us week after week to share their music with us, and myDarlin’ with them.
And he asked for a photo of the sticker - the defining moment that changed his life two years ago, and yet a lifetime away. Here it is my friend…. Mahalo for being an important part of our lives.
Today I am grateful for the musical community that myDarlin’ and I have had the privilege to be a part of. I marvel at how God has used music in our lives to bring people together that need each other. And music is water to my soul, satisfying that thirsty longing for spirituality and love.
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