God made an amazing connection for Giuseppe, our bass player and musical director, here in Kalisz. Giuseppe had long dreamed of playing worship music outside of Italy, but life sort of got in the way, and many years passed. “The dream remained closed up in a drawer,” is how he described it to me.
When I invited Giuseppe to the Feast of Tabernacles, I knew nothing of his dream. All I knew was that when I prayed about a worship team, I saw him and his son, Roberto, our drummer. It was an open door for Giuseppe’s dream, and he went for it without a moment’s hesitation.
Our first day here, the leader of Team Israel connected with Giuseppe. In fact, they were talking without interpretation, and made an agreement that Team Italy would join Team Israel (which you can read about in Worship All Night (Well, Almost!) ). It was a great connection, and little did we know that it was only the beginning.
Adam, leader of Team Israel, wanted to invite Giuseppe to go with him to other places to play music together. But for this conversation, they needed interpretation. So we got together over an after worship beer. I was translating for them, and baby, I was in the translation zone.
Translation has always been a difficult thing for me because in order to speak Italian, I need to be completely in my Italian brain. It was always the switching brains that gave me trouble. But this time it just flowed, and I was translating as fast as Adam was speaking, without him having to pause for me, and also going the other way, translating for Giuseppe. We went on like this for about 30 – 40 minutes, then suddenly the lack of sleep and the beer caught up with me and it was like hitting a wall: STOP!
Look at that goofy grin! The beer hadn’t even arrived yet!
Happily, at just that moment, Bethany sat down to join us. So she took over the translation and they were able to finish their conversation. I excused myself and went to bed.
The funny thing is that I remember absolutely nothing about the conversation, itself. But God used me to connect these two godly men and to help them discuss their plans. Perhaps in the days ahead Giuseppe will tell me what they plan to do. I was just the tool God used, but I can tell you, that even a humble tool in His hands is powerfully blessed. God is good!
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