I’ve had my guitar for 26 years.  Steel string, solid top, deep red.  With my basketball and Bible, I took it everywhere.  All that you can’t leave behind.

Never figured how to play solos that well, but focused on rhythm, jazz, and a style like U2’s Edge.  My favorite songs to play were With or Without You (my favorite all time song), Stay, Yellow Ledbetter, Plush, Gallows Pole, Over the Hills and Far Away.  

And of course, Stairway to Heaven.  I would play different segments specifically for each of my children.  For my daughter, my all time favorite part “And as we wind on down the road…” and for my son “If there’s a Bubu in your hedgerow don’t be alarmed now…”

And Amazing Grace.

One time, I led worship for the entire church (a rare time when all the congregations were gathered).  With just the sole acoustic guitar ringing out in the auditorium, you felt for a moment that all would be well.

“Through many dangers, toils, and snares

I have already come… and Grace will lead me home.”