Hugh Johnson Jr. (M.Ed.), Pearland, has been a featured writer for The Upper Room Daily Devotional Guide and works through his church, Asbury United Methodist Church. A lifelong professional musician who grew up in Houston, he became a member of the Wiley College Musicians Hall of Fame in 1990 and taught at Hubert Middle School in Savannah, Georgia, where he started the school’s first band program. Throughout his career, Hugh inspired his students not only through music but by teaching them about life. He retired after 31 years of teaching in 1994, but that did not stop him from playing or teaching his students outside the classroom.