The Seasonality of God ~ Soundtracks of Faith

 

For those of a certain vintage, you cannot hear Ecclesiastes 3 without hearing The Byrds’ song, Turn! Turn! Turn! I think this is good.  Because your life has a soundtrack.  Your life has a melody and music that has been playing, maybe in the background or being blasted from your stereo right now.  As you look over your life, what music connects to a place or people?  For example, I can think of the connection between “Let There Be Peace on Earth” and the place summer camp, even still seeing some of my friends’ faces around the campfire as we sung that hymn.  Or I think of 80s rock bands that connect with my move to Des Moines and listening to those songs with my friends.  Or I still hear the song that my wife and I danced to at our wedding.  Music teaches and tells us truths that ordinary words (like mine) just can’t do.  So today, to your chart, list songs ~ doesn’t have to be from the hymnal ~ that defined or described the seasons.  Or what song/songs today are helping to soothe your soul?  Do you hear other songs, besides The Byrds, in the words of Ecclesiastes?  Play with music today.  Listen to music today.  Let the notes reverberate and resonate in your soul.  Amen.