Thank you Amma

[Guest guest]

Just want to let you know how Amma helped me yesterday. i have a violin student,

a girl,

13 yrs old, who had a very crummy violin. She is just wonderful and I am friends

with her

mother. So, I lent her my father's old violin, that was in good shape. Violins

need to be

played. She took good care of it and came for lessons every week. Then,

suddenly, in May,

they stopped coming. No phone call, no email, nothing. This mom has 3 kids she

homeschools and is very busy going back and forth. The 2 oldest were in Spring

track, so I

thought she just got overwhelmed. After 3 weeks, I still hadn't heard from her,

despite

phone calls, and so forth. I started being anxious, wondering what was going on.

I

wondered if the violin had been broken and they were afraid to tell me. I even

wrote her a

letter, but no response. I finally asked Amma to let me let the whole thing go,

at least as

far as being anxious. Yesterday, we were headed back home from a visit to a

friend, and I

thought I might stop by my student's house and say hello, not sure of what

reception I

might receive! I had gotten directions from another person, but never visited

there before.

Amma led me straight to their house and the mom was just unloading the car from

visiting

the store. 5 minutes earlier and I would have missed her entirely. She saw me

drive up and

looked apprehensive. I got out of the car and walked to her and just gave her

the biggest

hug I could, and told her that I had missed her and she hugged me back and said

the

same. It turns out that she did feel realy guilty about not getting in touch and

it just got

more and more on her mind. We went into the house and I had a great 1/2 hour

visit with

her and when I told her that I just didn't want to lose contact with her, that

it was

important to me because I cared about her and her family, she cried. And guess

what?!

They had just received another violin from a friend and I got my dad's violin

back, safe and

sound. And she still wants her child to take lessons! Thank you AMMA!!

Mary E