Music

 

I have an Amazon favorites playlist that has  640 songs on it. 

It’s almost 40 hours of music. 

I have an Amazon old favorites playlist with 275 songs on it. 

That’s almost 19 more hours of music. 

I know the lyrics to almost every song. 

And if I don’t know the lyrics then I at least know the melody. 

That’s almost 1000 songs and sixty hours of music taking up space in my brain

And I didn’t even mean to learn it!

I just listened and absorbed. 

And that’s part of the power of music. 

 

Music is a language. 

It is an expression. 

It is celebration and protest and confession. 

It is feeling when there are no words. 

 

My favorite part of time weekly worship service is called 

The Great Thanksgiving. 

Ever so often we will speak its words instead of singing them, 

But singing them is the best! 

I can be having a rough morning after a rough week 

But as soon as the music starts for The Great Thanksgiving, 

All of the angst goes away and my spirit feels at peace. 

 

Music is powerful. 

It is an expression. 

It is celebration and protest and confession. 

It is feeling when there are no words. 

 

May your week be filled with the music that you need. 

And may that music calm, encourage, strengthen, or empower you in whatever ways you need. 

 

Amen.