If you listen to it, you can play it.

Ken Helser is an excellent musician who uses his talents very effectively communicating with incarcerated prisoners throughout the Southeast.

He often shares with the inmates, "when I was a young boy I was given a little xylophone for Christmas.

With it came a set of instructions. I was well on my way to learning how to play it when I lost the instruction booklet." After he and his parents had searched the house, the yard, and the family car, all to no avail, he sat down and began to cry.

"Mother," he whined, "the music’s gone!"

"No, son," His mother replied, "The instructions are gone, but the music is inside you, listen to it, and you can play it."

"Here in prison," he tells the inmates, "you may feel cut off from everything, as if life is closing in on you, and like the music is gone from your life. But the music’s inside of you; if you listen to it, you can play it!"

Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone.

It is inside of you-if you listen to it, you can play it.