What is the Music of your Heart?
Posted by Teresa | Under Writing Lessons Wednesday Feb 13, 2008I watched a movie that I haven’t seen for a couple of years, however, I remembered that it had a really good message. The title of the move is Music of the Heart with Meryl Strepp. Gloria Estefan & Angela Basset.
The movie is about a women who find herself without a job and needing to care for her 2 boys when her husband suddenly leaves her.
One of the most pivotal scenes in the movie is near the beginning when she (Meryl) is sitting at her mom’s kitchen table. She is in disarray by the events of her husband’s absence and as she sits taking sips of coffee, she asks her mom, “What am I going to do now?” Her mom says, “You get a job now. It doesn’t matter where, you just get a job anywhere.” She stops drinking her coffee and she says, “Well, I don’t need to do that because he will come back.” Her mom looks at her and says, “Just get one anyway.”
See at first she (Meryl) get a job at a gift wrapping store. She seems to enjoy it enough however it doesn’t “sing” to her heart and it doesn’t really help pay the bills to much. I mean, she doesn’t want to stay at her mom’s for too long (you know what I mean).
Now, I have to be completely honest with you here. I started dinner at this time so I didn’t see the transition she goes through…however…
The importance of what she does is still there….she realizes that she LOVES to help others learn how to play the violin. Playing the violin gives her the greatest joy and she wants to share her passion and heart desire with others. So she decides to go to her local school and teach violin to the kids.
Now at first…she can only be a substitute for the music program. She goes through some tribulation with the doubters, “haters”, and disbelievers of what she is doing, why she is doing it and such. However, she stands her ground because this is what she should and wants to be doing in her life.
Fast forward about ten years later….the school district decides to start slashing the budget and wants to cut the art and music programs from schools. Her program is one of the program that gets dropped. Well, does she allow that to defeat her, NO! she fights back and gets others to help her. She finds that throughout the years all the people’s lives that she touched by teaching these kids violin.
So, I would like to ask you—What is the Music of your Heart? And how are you being sure others are able to listen to it?
