My sweet wife passed your blog on to me this morning to check out. Probably, because as having been a professional musician in my past life, I have often used (pretty much word for word) your description of this brilliant form of musical expression. But I have never thought of jazz in terms of being analogous to our christian life. Yet there it is ... living and breathing right there in front of me. Thank you for pointing it out!

I would like to share an expression used by Bob Brookmeyer that would fit into this thread ...

I was never blessed by greatness or afflicted by fame -
I am just good at what I do ... most of the time.