This Saturday morning as I drank my coffee and the cats took turns cuddling in my lap with the sun streaming through the windows, I played the music of Queen, contemplating the beauty of the human experience. The night before I had attended a concert by the St. Louis Symphony performing Queen with a front band and singer. The crowd stood and sang, clapped, danced, and rocked to songs such as Do You Want to Live Forever, Bohemian Rhapsody, Somebody to Love, and We Are the Champions. Music is the soul of life and the universe, bringing together in lyrics and sound the individual and collective human experience. It is a form of prayer and worship because it calls us to celebrate both the pain and joy in our lives. God is truly in all things, and music is a powerful voice from within. The incredible human gift is to experience not only emotions, but to touch, hear and see. To interact with God’s creation and to create with him.
As I think about the future, in striving to fulfill my inner purpose in God’s plan focusing on the love of God and each other, my spiritual growth has come from my human experience and emotions. We are not meant to live in a world devoid of human emotions. The diversity of music in the world is a call to unity based on our human experience, not division. I know as I write that the spirit and the body is both energy and mass, nothing speaks to that truth more than music.
So, play your favorite music, feel your emotions, and celebrate today the gift of body and spirit.
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