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Just wanted to say our small church participated in a Christmas program here in a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri.
We organized a trio of Piano, Bass, and Drums and competed with our local Community Band performing 5 selections from A Jazz-Inspired Christmas. Many reported our trio was the hightlight of the evening. I am the musical director and pianist/organist of the church and perform many of your arrangements regularly. Our congregation love them and I constantly give praise to your talent and direction. I now own all of your current books and enjoy the challenge of performing them. One of my strengths is improvising and I am constantly learning new techniques and at the same time reinforcing old ones thanks to your arrangements. Please keep up the inspiring work, it keeps me on the edge of my seat. God Bless, Craig Curry!

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Thanks Donna! Your comment was helpful to me as I’m right now in the middle of all those “upcoming” projects from May!

One thing at a time and use the hours God’s given for His glory… very good advice. Sounds a lot like Matthew 6:33-34: “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

Thanks again. Continuing to pray for you…

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Craig, you have said all this so well. First, I am impressed that you are so goal oriented, but you get a lot done that way. Indeed, our worth is not connected to our productivity as God loves us just the way we are. I find each day challenging. I was just saying to myself about an hour ago, I have too much to do today. Then, reading this blog I realized that I just have to do one thing at a time and use the hours given me for His glory. You are a treasure, to God, and to my family!

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Wheaton College Homecoming: I’m Getting Old

by: Craig Curry

posted in: The Stuff of Life

Tuesday, September 30, 2003

Man, am I getting old. I just returned from my 15th year class reunion at Wheaton College and what was particularly amazing to me is that the students there now were my kids' ages when I was a student there! As I said in chapel, "I remember looking around on Homecoming Weekend when I was a student and thinking, "Is THAT what I'm going to look like in 15 years?" (That got a laugh from the students.) They didn't laugh at my next comment, "Now, from my perspective as a father of a 4 year old and a 2 year old, I look at all you students and ask, "Is THAT what they're going to look like in 15 years??"

It was a real honor for me to perform a song in chapel. I did my song, "Not My Own," which speaks of letting God even use our brokenness and wounds to serve Him if He wishes. The theme of Homecoming was "Perseverance: Rejoice in Hope." I told the students there's only one way to learn perseverance: the HARD way.

The apostle Paul wrote that "we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us." (Romans 5:3-5) As I've been moving through a couple of challenging years, I've seen this borne out in my own life a bit. It's not always easy, but it's great to know that God can and will use everything to transform us more into the image of His Son.

I'm so grateful for how God has "poured out His love into my heart by the Holy Spirit" this past year or more. That has made all the difference in these experiences for me.

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