The music goes on. Certainly the show must. At, perhaps, one of the most (potentially) stressful times I've known (this just happens to be a time where difficult and unrelated events have converged), my "spirituality", both private and public, is tested. "Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors." James 1: 2 The Message. Until recently I have not really thought in terms of "public spirituality", except to hold it in suspicion. I find little Biblical directive for much of what some eagerly put on public display. I must now encounter, however, that I have embraced an understanding of music making that is, in it's essense "praying in public". Hmmm. Just a couple of weeks ago I wrote (for public view here, so, I'm "cornered"): "This idea of "falling out of self-absorption", and stepping outside myself to a spiritual place when performing, has changed everything". Yes it has, and so much for the better. The music goes on.