Ukes can certainly heal the spirit. For many years, I have felt a calling to do what I can do for miss understood kids. My daughter has this same calling. She is now a senior in HS, but had been working with a freshman girl that is troubled. My daughter ran downstairs a couple weeks ago yelling "Dad, we got to go.. right now..". She told me that she got a weird text from this troubled young girl. Basically just thanking her for being an only true friend. But my daughter read much more into it. I had to take my daughter's intuition at heart, and we took off to this troubled teens house. We basically crashed into her home, her mother unaware of what was going on, but her daughter was in her bedroom in trouble. She had tried to commit suicide. She had sliced her wrists open pretty bad, and "out of it". Myself being an EMT many years ago stepped in and got the bleeding to stop. But my daughter saved this young girl's life. We took this troubled girl in. Her mother is a single mother and thankful and pretty much let us take this young girl in as an adopted daughter and work with her. I sit in my chair and clumsily strum my uke the best I can with my physical issues, and noticed that this young girl would just sit there and watch and listen. She says "it speaks to me, and calms me.." I started teaching her some chords, and a few soothing riffs, and songs. I plan to get her her own uke now. The girl really loves it and wants to learn to play. She will strum on mine, and I can see her spirit change. It gives her something to do, and occupies her mind and spirit. We have noticed the past couple weeks that this young girl is changing, and wants to live. My wife, daughter and myself talk to her a lot, and she is begining to realize what a gift life is. The humble uke is a huge part of that, and is something this young girl is really gravitating to. The Uke seems to be healing this young girl's spirit. I am blessed, and thankful. I am thankful for my family, especially the gift my daughter seems to have in the desire to help others and help them heal from their troubles. I just thought I would share what a simple ukulele is doing for this young girl that just a few short weeks ago wanted to end her life. Now finding how precious of a gift it is.
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