Stephen Fitch Prompt #11

The activities and hobbies that collectively sum up my life are as follows: I thoroughly

enjoy listening, playing, and sometimes composing music. I play trombone, drum set, djembe

(an african hand drum), piano, and sing. Music allows me the unique ability to release my

anxieties and to then tranquilly meditate and reflect on myself and my surroundings. It is with

music that I do my favorite activity, which is to praise the God who created me. I do this by

playing piano and singing in my comfortable abode or by playing drum set in my praise band at

my church. I also enjoy being with my friends, with whom I share I sense of community and

mutual love.

Music is a very interesting and enjoyable matter to me personally; it projects a paradigm

of sensibility and allure to a listener that is unparalleled in its ability to generate emotional and

spiritual solidarity. The beauty of music's sound interests me so much, that some days I will

play piano for hours after listening to a song until I have managed to figure out how to play the

whole piece. Then after uniting my voice to the sound of the piano, I become immersed into a

rich musical experience which engrosses my whole self in a spiritual and serene renewal. This

expression, when full of wholehearted drive, energy, and passion, relieves me of anxieties and

furthers the faith that I have been discovering in God. This assertion of myself through music

serves a twofold purpose: it releases my worries and stresses, and allows me the enjoyment of

expressing myself through a beautiful and joyous noise which I use as earnest prayer.

Furthermore, I enjoy also the peaceful and connecting power found in fellowship through

my friends, my brothers in my same faith. My friends and I have known each other for a long

time through our church's youth in which we have ventured on several mission trips. It is on

these trips that we chiefly enjoy the fruitfulness of each others' presences. In ventures

Philadelphia, in Kentucky, Tennessee on these mission trips my friends and I really experience
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each other’s strengths, passions and weaknesses, and they in turn see mine. The acuteness of my

friends' relationships on these mission trips are caused by the tough circumstances that are

overcame on these trips with teamwork such as: fixing houses, serving homeless across a

metropolitan city, giving everyone you see a smile and unconditional love, or sleeping on tile

floor in a church basement because you ignore your neediness. The glimpse of vigor and

strength presented through my friends on these trips is a catalyst in furthering our love and

harmony together. It is there that our unification is justified, because when we are individually

weak and tired we are together strong. Most of the friends from those trips are found in my bible

study named Adventure of Faith which started about a year and a half ago. Through this bible

study, we have similarly grown stronger as friends than ever before because of our strength in a

common beliefs, and our genuine respect and honesty with each other. I enjoy being with my

friends because it gives me initiative and inspires me to strive for more greatness, truth, and

faith.

At school I enjoy the many music classes that I am enrolled in, which helps quench my

thirst for musical endeavors. I am very excited about the next season of my life in an university,

which is a abruptly incoming and alarmingly impending on me. The arrival of this season will

bring me further in my enjoyment and development in playing music, as well as growing in my

relationship with God. It is slightly dismaying that many of my friends will become physically

distant from me in the near future, but that is contrastingly all the more joyful, for they have

exciting lives to life and dreams to fulfill. I am fully confident in the strength and power that is

in my future and that may be gained by my continuing faith.