Guest Post: Piano Keys by Summer Koehler

Summer is a student at Bolingbrook High School near Chicago, IL.  As you can see, she has a talent for writing and for getting at the heart of the issue.  I am posting this on my blog with her permission.  Enjoy!

As I sit here in piano keyboarding class, I realize that people are like piano keys. We each are different and unique in our own ways. Then when you play that note, each time you press down that key, it is like a stressor or conflict hitting that person in their life.

For example, Yiruma's "River Flows in You" (-love that song :)), all those notes, keys you need to press down in order to play the song correctly. Walking in the hallways in high school, all of those keys, the different variations of students each being pressed down like a key on a piano: She just found out she is pregnant; his brother just got sent to the slammer; baseball tryouts are tomorrow; my mom has cancer; my best friend is moving; I got to ace this test or I fail; do I breakup with her or not.. but then everyone always turns to drugs and alcohol which leads to attempts of suicide and so on.. but very rarely do they find the real true way out.

The exit sign hanging above that door (thanks Taylor!!). Exit: God is your way out. God is the way out. He is always with you, through everything no matter what the situation. For a lot of people in this world He is your best friend for life, but gets pushed out of the picture by you. If you were to die today, where would you go? Up, or down? Be honest to yourself. When was the last time you truly turned to him to turn your life around? He is the way out of everything.

He is the tuner to the piano. When a key goes flat, He tunes it. He makes all the problems go away. Tune your key. Exit: God IS the way out. He is the tuner to the piano, and you are the key.

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