#26-Thinking you deserve a solo

Since yours truly has been in high spirits recently, I have decided it acceptable once again to use myself as the test case for the subject to which I am writing on.....

In the above video one can clearly see me butcher "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" by Simon & Garfunkel in ways no one thought possible. However, at the time of singing that song, I really believed that my voice matched those of Art Garfunkel as he blared his vocals through the climax of the song.

It was not until I watched this video that I realized for the first time ever that my brain was a liar, and a very good liar at that. I had thought I was a good singer, but it was really my brain deceptively telling myself I was a good singer, especially when sung with Art Garfunkel's vocals as support. Anyone can see that I hit 1% of the notes in that 60 seconds of singing, and yet I would have given myself an A just after the completion of the song..

Before this realization I was attempting to be in every solo at my church ever. I had far aspirations that God's will for me one day would be to be apart of IBC praise as I led a stadium full of youth on the Friday night of youth congress through the rocking christian ballad of "Our God is an Awesome God!"

And anytime someone won a solo over me, I would excuse it off that the choir director was playing favorites, or that the soprano soloist was just prettier than me....

whatever the excuse was, I was bitter I was not getting the spotlight, and I knew that my brain was telling me that I was really a singing sensation that could not be tamed....

At the closing of this sermon, let us look deep inside ourselves and ask, "Am I guilty of the same thing?" And quickly answer that question with, "I know everyone's just jealous, including that Joel Riley."