Peace...

After a day full of living, laughing, and loving, it seems as though there ought to be one more thing that one should do to make the day complete.

Listen.

Yes, listening is the answer, at least for me. There's nothing I look forward to more than sitting down to listen to some beautiful piano, my own thoughts, or anything my Creator might have to say to me about my day, life, etc.

I sometimes feel as though our society, our American culture, doesn't truly value the idea of stopping everything that one might be doing and simply being at peace.

Oh well.

I think I'll go ahead and do it anyway.

Stop...look up...and Realize...

I sometimes wonder why music is the way it is, why it can instantly connect hearts and minds, why it can, in an instant, allow a person to know that the world has profound depth, possibility and mystery.

I sometimes wonder whether all of this is true because God is the Great Composer of the universe. He has written each of our lives as a unique line in an infinitely complex and intricate score that continually glorifies His name and shows the wonder of His majesty. Could it be that our lives, the discordant struggles and trials as well as the sweet harmonies of blessed happiness, all fit together into a great work, a magnum opus, that we are daily performing for the Composer, who brought us into being?

In a world where the hustle and bustle of life can seem like a series of unreasoning, random events, I find it profoundly comforting to stop...look up...and realize that all the madness of our existences on this earth are really the perfect plan of Father who created us all.

Indeed, that much madness is Divinest sense...