Elizabeth Kunc Elizabeth Kunc

Music!

As a singer, it probably comes as no surprise that I don’t know what I’d do or where I’d be without music.  It literally lifts my heart.

As a singer, it probably comes as no surprise that I don’t know what I’d do or where I’d be without music.  It literally lifts my heart.

From the rhythmical sounds of nature to the sweet sound of the symphony; whether I’m feeling happy or sad or anything in the spectrum, there’s always a song somewhere out there to match however I feel.

But until I read this quote, I never connected the fact that our hearts beat steadily to the rhythm of life.

Question:  Do you hear music around you?

Food For Thought:  Is there a song that fits your life right now that seems to keep coming back to you?

Challenge:  Sit outside all by yourself.  Close your eyes and see if you can hear music in the natural world around you.  This is the kind of music that is always there and has the potential to refresh your spirit if you’ll simply pay it some attention.

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Elizabeth Kunc Elizabeth Kunc

Music again.

Ugh.  As anyone close to me can tell you, I get irritated by lots of noise.  It’s just too much sometimes for me to hear lots of different noises competing at once.  It’s sort of like when I walk into Best Buy.  There’s a different song playing in each different department, and when I can hear all of them together?  Well, let’s just say I’ve got about 5 minutes before I want to run from the building.

May all that has been reduced to noise in you, become music again. David Teems

Ugh.  As anyone close to me can tell you, I get irritated by lots of noise.  It’s just too much sometimes for me to hear lots of different noises competing all at once.  It’s sort of like when I walk into Best Buy.  You know how there’s a different song playing in each different department? Well, when I can hear all of them at once, I’ve got about 5 minutes before I want to run screaming from the building.

Makes me think of my study of music in college. Music had always been something I’d loved! But college altered that for me … so many classes, so much microscopic study of music, so many demanding performances and stressed out professors … I didn’t even want to listen to the radio for about six months after I graduated.

But then life started to take a turn when I became a Mom.  All the sudden, my heart began to find reasons to sing again.  It’s like life had opened up a portal, and my heart’s music wanted to play once again.

Question:  Was there a time when your life just seemed “noisy” or “chaotic” or “unharmonious?” Where something you loved to do just didn’t thrill you like it used to?

Food For Thought:  What did you do to get through that time?

Challenge:  Can you find reasons to “sing” again? To do that thing that makes your heart soar, even just a little?

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