Back in the ‘olden days’ when our parents were young, they would listen to the gramophone, sitting by the fireside, enjoying the music - the voices and the music of great composers played by gifted musicians.

The man that made it all possible was born in a little town in Ohio, the son of an innkeeper.

At the age of 12 he took a job selling newspapers on a train, and in the baggage car he built a little laboratory, where he experimented with his hobby, electricity.  One day as he boarded a moving train with two armfuls of papers he stumbled and it seemed for a moment he would fall beneath the wheels, but the guard caught him by the ears, and pulled him to safety. It saved his life – but it was the start of deafness, which was to be with him all his days.

Indeed, as an old man he wrote that he had not heard a bird sing since he was twelve – yet Thomas Alva Edison went on to bring songs and music to multitudes. He was inventor of the phonograph - the first means to record and play back sound – ultimately leading to the creation of what we now know as the gramophone.

Great blessings are often born of the sorest misfortunes, and the story of Edison Surely proves it.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.  (Philippians 4:4)

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