Some Musicians Remind Me of Fancy Pigeons—part 2

 

Some Musicians Remind Me of Fancy Pigeons—part 2

          Some church musicians remind me of a fancy pigeon called an English Pouter.  An English Pouter is a large stately bird that looks quite normal until he is somehow disturbed.   Have never understood just what sets him (or her) off but all of a sudden this pigeon begins to swell up in front (just under his tiny head).  Before you know it, his front is all blown up like a balloon, and he looks quite odd.  Thus this type of pigeon has, by his reputation, been justly called a Pouter.

          Sometimes church musicians, who appear to be quite normal, suddenly blow up in front of others, get red in the face and everyone in their presence can tell that they are pouting.  These musicians look quite odd as they express their pouting in various ways just like a Pouter pigeon.  1Corinthians 13:4 explains what these people are not like when it says, “Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up…”  Colossians 2:18 gives a warning about a person who is “…vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind.”  Thank God, the opposite of the musician who pouts is the charitable Christian musician who suffers long, doesn’t envy other musicians and “vaunteth not” (perpereuomai 4068) is not a braggart.  It seems that the Pouter Pigeon-like musician is plagued with several of the aforementioned maladies, any of which, can cause this person to swell up and pout and strut.