Keyboard lessons

I recently started attending a beginner's keyboard class at Believer Music and it's been getting more difficult each week. Even though I have a piano background, I've stopped playing for more than 10 years. Also, have been used to playing melody rather than chords accompaniment.

Well, for beginner's class, we're mainly learning how to play chords and simple beats to accompany worship songs. And I must admit I've forgotten all my music theory. Also, I'm not used to just reading alphabets as I'm used to reading the "beansprout" notations, which more or less has everything laid out there even when to play the notes. So I have to translate the alphabets into more alphabets (chords has 3 notes mah) and onto the keyboard directly now and try to do the inversions. Some new things I learnt are the suspended chords like C2 & D4 which was taught yesterday (if I had ever learnt it before, I have clean forgotten it, including the inversions).

Anyway, what I actually wanted to say was that yesterday, when we were learning a new song "Forever Grateful", I was suddenly very moved. It wasn't at the beginning, coz I think I was too busy trying to figure out the chords and play the song properly. But during a "break" (when the teacher called us around her to do a demo), the words of the song sudden struck me. The actual part of the verse that did that was "You did not wait for me to draw near to you, but clothed yourself in frail humanity". I was like "Woah". It was like the impact of the meaning suddenly dawned on me (not that I didn't understand what it was before) but you know, think it got "absorbed" by the spirit in me.