“Know that I am with you and will keep you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” Genesis 28:15 The story of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has a different meaning to me today than it did…

I began piano lessons at nine years old at the church where I grew up in the Brooklyn area of New York. About to complete my third book, there was a piece three pages long, and for some reason, I kept making a mistake on the same note repeatedly. So much was the music teacher’s…