Music to My Ears

<http://www.guideposts.com/story/mysterious-ways-ear-surgery>http://www.guideposts.com/story/mysterious-ways-ear-surgery
 



As a piano teacher, I was scared about my 
upcoming ear operation. If only I had someone to talk to...

By Eugenia Eason, Memphis, Tennessee
September, 1984

I walked gloomily through the halls of a Chicago YWCA.

I had come to the city for a crucial ear 
operation. Next day I'd begin four days of 
preparation before surgery at St. Luke’s 
Hospital. As a piano teacher, I was especially 
frightened about the outcome­the operation was so 
new that few others had had it.

With no friends close by, I was lonely. 
Apprehensive.  If only you would send me someone 
I could talk to, I prayed to God.

As I passed the Y's solarium, I noticed a piano 
and, almost as if it were the friend I needed. I 
felt drawn to the keyboard. I sat down at the 
piano and began to play. I played and played. The 
music flowed with a spirit of its own, expressing 
my pent-up feelings. At last I finished and got up to leave.

"Please, don't stop!" a voice called out. All 
this time, though I hadn't noticed her, a woman 
had been sitting in the far comer of the room.

We introduced ourselves and started to chat. She, 
too, was a stranger in town. And she, too, it 
turned out, had been through the very same 
surgery I was about to undergo, with "my" doctor, 
at "my" hospital, exactly a year before! It was 
she who reassured me about the operation that in 
a few days would prove to be such a success.

She had heard my music. But Someone else had heard my prayer.


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