Mrs Blueberry

Hi folks - I would like you all to meet Mrs Blueberry. Mrs Blueberry is my guitar, and also a dear friend of mine. It may not be evident from her photo that she is blue, but, in fact, she is. She's a lovely shade of dark blue. And semi-stripy. Almost like a blue tiger. Or even a bit like Dory from Finding Nemo. She's lovely. She enjoys making music and helping me write songs. She also enjoys cool people like Tamsin and Tom playing her, but isn't too keen on strangers as a general rule. She likes her new little space at the left hand side of the platform at church. Mrs Blueberry likes having a home - she even suggested that we put a beanbag and a lava lamp next to her guitar stand to make it more homely. I kind of had to talk her out of it - she's a bit over-imaginative. Most of all, Mrs Blueberry likes making music to the glory of God. And even though I'm not the greatest guitarist, and sometimes she goes out of tune for no apparent reason, we're a good team. God blesses teams, I reckon - and I think God has blessed the both of us. And we really want to be able to bless Him, too. So we're going to keep working at our relationship. She'll try to stay in tune, and I'll try not to drop her, and we'll keep working at it, and we'll keep making music! It's all good!

Mrs Blueberry and I have been engaging in a spot of songwriting. She's pretty good at it. However, occasionally she can't find what she needs to be doing and gets a little frustrated, coz some songs are piano songs and she's not a piano. Not, she adds, that she would ever want to be - she likes her curvy blue figure too much to be a piano. (She had a little hissy fit about how pianos just think they're so cool, but she kind of got over it after awhile...) Sometimes, she thinks she'd like to be an electric guitar and not an acoustic/electric, but she does like the fact that she's versatile. She'd like to make freaky noises, though... although she admits she'd feel kind of silly. And she does like the fact that she can make nice, pretty sounds... In her wildest fantasties, she dreams of being an electric violin. Coz she thinks they're pretty awesome.

But deep down, like all of us, Mrs Blueberry knows that she can never be an electric violin. Because she is an acoustic/electric guitar. That is what she was created to be. And that is what she does best. God created Mrs Blueberry to be a very cool guitar, and to be my songwriting companion and friend. And she is. So right now, I'm going to thank God for Mrs Blueberry. Coz she's awesome. And so is God, only a hundred thousand times more so.

I'd better be jetting - au revoir from me and from Mrs Blueberry!

ALP,
Rosie