{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Small Wonders","title":"Practice Makes Possible","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1093,"description":"Many people learn to play an instrument when they're young.\nSadly, most will give it up over time - and many will come to regret it.\nTo become proficient at an instrument means to practise: to keep playing the same rudiments or scales over and over again.\nPractice is sometimes boring. It's often just an unexciting part of the day. But practice isn't what makes perfect - it's what makes possible.\nRepetition is key to practice.\nIf you want to know how to do something, you have to do it over and over again.\nThis same idea of practice runs throughout the Hebrew scriptures.\nFrom the time of Moses through to Jesus, the Bible is full of encouragement to keep up the small, repetitive practice of following the commands of God and loving one another.\nThrough constant daily practice, we will never forget the beauty of walking in step with the melody of the Lord.\nMy teacher lies on the floor with a bad back off to the side of the piano.\nI sit up straight on the stool.\nHe begins by telling me that every key\nis like a different room\nand I am a blind man who must learn\nto walk through all twelve of them\nwithout hitting the furniture.\nI feel myself reach for the first doorknob.\nPiano Lessons Stanza 1, Billy Collins","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/dmK8bnSXogSdA0JzLpcbWT0T8m3Qf0pVnc905HRW-Cg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI5MjQ0LzE2NDc5/OTAzNDUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}