That's a blogful!

I'm posting here because I made a comment on someone else's blog and the only way that I could post it was to post as a subscriber to some other blog. The one's I'm using now are Word Press (handmaiden4him) and Tumblr.com (Floatslikeabutterfly).
I guess I'll make this my music blog since I am dressed like Mozart!
I am taking guitar lessons on line (how cool and how convenient) and I' am learning how to play in DADGAD, an alternate tuning.
So far, I haven't learned a "song" (very unsettling to me) but playing in an alternate tuning is supposed to free me up a little so I can begin to hear melodies and maybe even write a song.
I'll let you know how that goes!
The guy I'm taking lessons from is Ed Pingenot, who was recommended by a FB subscriber. Ed teaches using Skype and I look horrible on that little camera! I'm actually stunningly beautiful, but that's despite the point. (I can make up things on the internet, right?)
My love for the guitar started when I was 16 or so. I would play 60's type songs, such as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's song "Four and Twenty" or Janis Ian, "At Seventeen".
I became "born again" in 1980 in Zweibrucken, Germany. I put "born again" in quotes because I really was born again at 12 but God, in His mercy, allowed me to ramble and stumble and find out where some of the boundaries were. He then renewed His New Covenant with me when I turned 19. I won't go into the details about that here but it was an amazing time for me and wonderful, like being in love for the first time.
When my dad was in his last two years in the military, his last duty station ended up being in Philadelphia, Penn., and we ended up buying a house in Willingboro, N.J.
There was a move of God in those times, particularly profound, and I was swept up in His big fish net.
Part of that movement had to do with the baptism of the Holy Spirit and home groups. I went to one of those at the invitation of a sneaky friend, and fell in love with that kind of ministry. There were young and old alike there and a sweet and wise older couple was the stable fixture of those days, opening their doors to who knows what would walk through their doors! (Like me!)Young
people brought their guitars and were playing scripture songs. The Bible came alive and I could sing it!
That's what started my love affair with the guitar all over again! Not a folk singer like Joni Mitchell or Joan Baez, but a worshiper bringing life to people through scripture songs and connecting with a Holy God!