Having Thanksgiving break has been very healthy for me. I don't think I've taken three straight days to rest in years. So this morning I was tinkering with my guitar (with which I am quite the amateur), and began singing a little ditty about my cat. Well in no time at all, I found myself praying with a rhythm. I have never done this before. The strange thing was that the simple melody freed me to speak things I wouldn't have said otherwise.
Music is freeing. Lyrics today are packed with words (both good and bad) that one could not freely say in a casual tone. Even hymns in church touch on topics we don't speak about easily. How many hymns speak about death? (A lot.)
Prayer is a mysterious discipline, but so is music.
"Music is the shorthand of emotion" - Tolstoy
1 comments:
Thanks for sharing your heart, Chris. You really put into words the way that music has to express thoughts and feelings we simply could not express in regular conversation. And great quote.
I have had music on the mind, too.
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