Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

I will never forget my first piano recital performance in college.   I loved to perform and really make good music, but I did NOT like performing from memory.  Performing from memory has always been a terrifying experience for me.  Anxiety would rule my entire being as I would try to perfectly remember every note on the page and all the precise fingering while implementing every little nuance to create something that sounded like real music and not just a bunch of notes.  You see, I was a perfectionist, very focused in on myself.  Anyway, there I was on stage in the performance hall playing from memory, performing the first movement of a Mozart sonata.  I will never forget the way my right foot shook as I tried to properly use the pedal the way it should be used for playing Mozart.  My foot shook terribly because fear controlled my performance.  I feared I would have a memory slip, I was fearful of what everyone was thinking, I feared making a mistake and I feared I would fail!  Fear permeated my performance