While visiting Branson, MO this past weekend listening to the various artists at the Bluegrass Festival, there was a young group from Colorado Springs, CO that called themselves WMD Bluegrass Band. They were the winners of last year’s Youth in Bluegrass competition. They played a song from their new album titled “Last Note” and it brought tears to my eyes as I thought about my sweet friend who had recently lost her only son.

The song also got me to thinking about my life and the lives of all those I love dearly. What do you want your last note to be? The line that really gets me in the chorus is this, “Oh, if the lights fade and the sound cuts out, what will your crowd think about the last note you ever played?” I for one, want every moment until the that last note to be thought of as caring, loving, forgiving, and Christ-like. I know I have much to work on, but this song somehow brought my mind to thinking about this more and more. I have not been able to get this thought out of my head, and frankly, I do not want to. I want to be thinking “This may be my last note,” each time I do, say or think anything. I want my family and friends to know I love them. I want to be a vessel for God to speak through and I want to be a woman after his heart, as I was after my husband’s heart all those years ago.

Here are the words to the song. I hope you will take some time and ponder them and they will speak to your heart as they have spoken to mine.

“The daylight creeps softly, slowly on your door. You didn’t know, but it’s on your mind and now you know for sure.

How many hours spent wondering why would it matter if you’re gone? And do you doubt in the back of your mind, you feel like you did something wrong. Oh, if the lights fade and the sound cuts out, what will your crowd think about the last note you ever played?

No one ever thinks about the time separating the first from the last. You never know will you pull though, or will this be the last you say?

How many hours spent wondering why would it matter if you’re gone? And do you doubt in the back of your mind, you feel like you did something wrong. Oh, if the lights fade and the sound cuts out, what will your crowd think about the last note you ever played? Last note you ever played. Last note you ever played.”