Oliver Wendell Holmes offered 
this sad observation:


“Most people die 
with the music still inside them.”

Oliver's contemporary, 
  poet Walt Whitman wrote:  


“the powerful play goes on,                   and you may contribute 
a verse.”

Part of my mission is simply this:
  
I want to get all the music out of me while I can...  
...to contribute a verse or two (dozen) more before the Lord says I’m done here. 

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A second part of my mission was put best by  Allman Brothers  in 1973 s just "trying to make a livin and doing the best I can”.  Over the years I have often been able to “eat from the fruit of my lips” Proverbs 18:20.  This has sometimes been sumptuous, sometimes lean.  But always flavored with grace.

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Here's a third point on the horizon for me:  Based on a parable of Jesus recorded in Matthew 25, there is strong incentive to increase what God has put in my hands.  Behind that is a deep longing to hear “Well done” from Him when my last verse is sung.  Not to win His approval.  But simply out of gratitude.  (Does that graph look anything like a crescendo of the word "Awe"?  Or is it just me?)

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                                                    And fourth, my mission is
                     to make music that’s good for body and soul. 
 
Music, like all the arts, can do spiritual and physical good.  On the body side, that’s why I support life-giving work like Compassion’s Water for Life Fund.  On the spiritual side, I hope some of my songs breathe a little life and comfort and joy into souls and point them to the source of all three.  Some of my greatest treasures are emails and letters sent by people who have taken the time to spill some ink about how a song or book touched or helped in some way.  Thank the Lord.  That is so gratifying.


     What's your mission?    What "music" is still inside you that needs to get out?  What dream?  What venture?
                What act of kindness?  or Service?  What verse?  or contribution?       Go for it.... TODAY.