Just recently I was listening to the radio and heard again that song that strikes a responsive chord in my heart, “You Light Up My Life.”  I remember a story a preacher friend told me.  A fine pianist in the Methodist Church at Traverse City, Michigan, had a son who died tragically.  Right in the middle of the funeral service, this father walked over to the piano in the sanctuary and began to play with great feeling, “You light up my life, you give me hope to carry on, you fill my days with song.”  It was an incredibly tender moment.

So the song strikes a responsive chord in us.  We all need someone to light up our life.  Someone who will fill our days with song.  God does that.  But knowing some loving human beings helps also.  Would you be willing to be loving music to someone?  Do you need a community -- a few people -- who would be that loving music to you?  The church in your neighborhood could be the answer.