Monday, March 1, 2010

This is the sound, of you

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William P. Merrill

Music is amazing. It can make the hair on your neck stand up, it can make you smile. It can make you delve into your deepest thoughts and emotions, it can make you cry. Sometimes I feel like a walking, living, breathing radio.

I think I got that from my mother. She is amazing, and one of the things that I love about her is the love of music she showed me from a young age. I mean, come on, she bought me a tuba.

All my childhood I can remember the sounds of the piano echoing down the hallways. Either my sister or my mother would sit, for hours sometimes, and just play. Happy songs, sad songs, it didn't matter to me.

I was, and still am, the guy who sings barely loud enough to be called a whisper at church. But catch me alone and odds are I'll be singing something.

Do you ever catch yourself singing out loud as you walk across campus? I do, almost every day. Thankfully, no one has said anything to me about it.

Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them! ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

There are few feelings better than singing out so fully that you can feel the bottoms of your lungs cry for air. Give it a try, who cares if you get caught!

1 comment:

  1. i love that quote. where do you find all these good quotes?

    and yes, next to the Holy Spirit, music is the most moving thing i've found on this planet. i wish my family was musical like yours!

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