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The concert hall is dark and still, all eyes on the lone figure at the center of the stage. The piano player. I creep up behind him, careful not to disturb the soft <\/em>plink-plink of the keys. This melody he’s playing…it’s beautiful. Unlike anything I’ve ever heard before. <\/em><\/p>\n

The closer I get, the more familiar the man becomes. I recognize him. The piano player is me. The music? It’s mine.<\/em><\/p>\n

The same melody echoed in my head nearly 15 years later as I took my seat at the grand piano in front of hundreds at the Goodrich Theater in Oneonta, New York, my hometown. I could remember the notes as if I’d dreamed them up yesterday.<\/p>\n

I had <\/em>dreamed them up, in the dream that haunted me to this day. As did the literal bolt from the blue that started it all.<\/p>\n

It was just an ordinary summer day. Not a cloud in the sky. I’d driven up to a lake in Athens, New York, that morning for my wife’s family reunion. The kids were splashing in the lake and I was grilling up burgers and hot dogs. What could be better?<\/p>\n

My medical practice was booming, the family was happy. Life was good.<\/p>\n

I slipped away to make a call to my mom on a pay phone by a lakeside pavilion, oblivious of the storm clouds on the horizon. The phone rang six, eight times. The wind kicked up. A woman and her daughter waited behind me.<\/p>\n

I was about to hang up when boom! <\/em>A bolt of lightning struck the pavilion, coursed through the receiver and shocked me square in the face with terrifying force, sending me flying 15 feet.<\/p>\n

What happened next is a blur. It sounds nuts, but I was submerged in this hazy blue-white light. Like I’d fallen into a peaceful river. I could sense something overwhelming, powerful but loving. God? I wasn’t sure, but I never wanted to leave.<\/p>\n

Fifteen minutes later, though, I awoke to a woman pumping my chest, jolting me back to life. The same woman who’d been standing behind me at the pay phone. She was an ICU nurse.<\/p>\n

Three weeks later, I was back at work. My doctors had conducted all the routine neurological exams and concluded I was fine. Only something was off—way off.<\/p>\n

I had this strange compulsion to listen to classical piano music. The kind that had put me to sleep as a kid the year my mom forced me to take piano lessons.<\/p>\n

“I can’t explain it,” I confided to a doctor friend. “It’s like I crave <\/em>it.”<\/p>\n

This from a guy who’d spent the previous two decades roaring around on a Harley and blasting out the Rolling Stones. I bought a Chopin CD just to test the waters, feeling like an imposter in the classical section of the music store. But as soon as I played it, I was hooked.<\/p>\n

I hummed to Chopin in the car, at work, even at the dinner table. When I wasn’t listening to the music, I was thinking about it. Obsessively. I was a practical guy, a doctor, not some New Age hippie who spent his time chasing ooey-ooey <\/em>feelings from the great unknown.<\/p>\n

Was I going crazy? Is that what the bolt of lightning had done?<\/p>\n

It only got weirder. A week later, our babysitter stopped by. She was moving and needed a favor. “Dr. Cicoria, I have this old piano,” she said. “I can’t take it with me. Can you keep it for a while? A year, tops?”<\/p>\n

As soon as we moved the piano into our house, the dream came—me in a concert hall, performing a sonata I’d somehow composed. Me, who had virtually no musical training.<\/p>\n

It jolted me awake, the music still ringing in my head. I could hear whole chunks of it, like someone had downloaded a file directly into my brain. This was getting ridiculous. I buried my head in my pillow, but the notes begged and pleaded to come out.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Enough was enough. I tiptoed downstairs, sat at the creaky piano bench and tried to mimic the melody. The moment I plucked out a few soft notes it hit me. That same powerful sense of love and peace.<\/p>\n

The lightning bolt had coursed through my body with a force that should have killed me, but instead, it had left something beautiful behind. That beauty wasn’t meant to stay inside my head. I knew nothing about composing, but I knew exactly what I had to do—follow that music.<\/p>\n

That’s how I’d ended up in a real concert hall, after years of piano lessons and practicing into the wee hours of the night to release the music within.<\/p>\n

A hush fell over the crowd. I couldn’t stop trembling—until my fingers finally found the keys and the music took over.<\/p>\n

When I finished, I took a bow as the audience erupted into thunderous applause. All in response to the piece I’d composed—“The Lightning Sonata.”<\/p>\n

Listen to Tony<\/a> performing his music!<\/em><\/p>\n

Download your FREE ebook, Mysterious Ways: 9 Inspiring Stories that Show Evidence of God's Love and God's Grace<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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