My Teddy Bear

Teddy bears, as most people know, are very common things. Most people have one or have had one sometime in their life. Why do humans have such an attachment to teddies? I think it's because of the unfaltering, unfailing protection and support that they provide.
Fear is a concept that we learn as very young children. Some of our first fears were somehow associated with monsters lurking under our beds or in our closets. And when we were afraid, our first instinct was to find protection. Thus, protection or safety was another concept that we learned early in our life. As young kids, we had teddy bears and night lights to get us through these rough nights. Some of us still do. (Guilty!)
However, as we get older we start to depend less on stuffed friends and more on other, less tangible things. When burdens of the world start to weigh down and we begin to feel that fimliar suppression, we need something to turn to. Despite the temptation, there does come a time when we must graduate from teddy bears. Some people turn to enlightenment that the scriptures bring, some depend on books and novels with plots that they can lose themselves in.
I've come to realize that other than the gospel and my Savior, the most trust-worthy, comforting thing I have to turn to is music.
There is something about chord progressions and rhythms that provides a protecting distraction that cannot be broken by hardly anything. Every time I sit down at a keyboard and begin to play, the tension from my mind and my muscles is carried away with each tone and is replaced with inspiration and solutions. The instrument is at my control.
I am so grateful for this gift that God has given this world. It is one the greatest things God has provided us. I am grateful for the opportunity I have to express myself through music. I'm grateful that Heavenly thought to create these grown-up teddy bears to get us through the hardships of this world, and I'm grateful for every time that I have reached a solution through music.