This is a book I read to my children last night. "Igor The Bird Who Couldn't Sing" was written by Satoshi Kitamura. It was a perfect story for someone like me who loved music but couldn't find anything to keep me doing it because he doesn't think he has the talent (or rhythm) for it. Igor was such a character, totally hopeless in something he truly loved. One day when he thought he couldn't do it anymore, he sang and found a willing audience in a big bird called Dodo. They later formed a duet and toured the world to play to whoever that is willing to listen to them.

At around midnight yesterday, when everyone else was sleeping, I found my willing audience once again. I wrote my first complete song called "This Time" after almost a year. I put a melody to it, and had it recorded with my rusty equipments... a guitar track, my own vocal and for the first time my drum track played with fingers on my little drum machine. After an hour or so, it was completed, waiting for someone else willing to listen to it. For now, I'm happy to know that God is my only willing audience.

I write (whether music or words) not for others to listen to more than for myself needing to do it. If what I write can bless others, great, otherwise its not for me to decide how God will use it or if He will use it at all. My job is to be faithful doing what I think God created me to do.

In the same manner, I will try to love, serve and make things with my hands. I may feel inadequent most of the time and thinks that no one appreciates them, I know for sure that God with His great taste will most certainly do.

I think I'll put this book into my Books of Fame! It'll be the first children book to end up there. Another good children book is the The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, but it didn't impact me as much as this book did.