The Pianist Who Never Stopped Playing
Every Sunday morning for forty-three years, Margaret Chen arrived at Grace Community Church in Asheville, North Carolina, precisely twenty minutes before the service. She'd sit...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 92:1-4, 12-15.
Every Sunday morning for forty-three years, Margaret Chen arrived at Grace Community Church in Asheville, North Carolina, precisely twenty minutes before the service. She'd sit at the old Baldwin upright, flex her arthritic fingers, and begin to play. Not because anyone asked her to. Not because she was paid. Because, as she told her pastor, "My hands remember what God has done, even when my mind gets foggy."…
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