Friday, August 9, 2013

Dear God,

Music calms the angry beast and leads the weary to peace.  Tonight we sat in the Episcopal Cathedral listening to a string quartet, soloists, pianists, and organists as they played our way to heaven.  Joy came over us.

I am always drawn into you when I listen to sacred music.  There is something about the sound that leads me to the depths of great love.  As I close my eyes allowing myself to fully hear the notes, the rhythms, the lyrics, and more, I smile with the great composers who first saw and heard the music before it was written.  I marvel again and again as I reflect upon eternity's kind of grace that would create music that could transform the human soul.

As the theme of wonder unfolded for our retreat, I thought of how you lead us to wonder every day.  How glorious life is when viewed from the perspective of paradise.

God of glory and grace,
thank you
for blessing us
with gifts
from heaven.
Teach us
to look out
and up
so we
can witness life
from the heights.
You are
always good.

Love, Andrea