Wouldn't Life Be Boring Without Music?

“I’m SO excited, Mom!  Can you believe that I’m playing the actual sax that you played when you were in band?”

Granddaughter # 1 was so excited to know that the band’s saxophone was the same one her mother had played years before in the same school; same band room. And, like her mother, Granddaughter # 1 was also their drum major for two years. No piano lessons for her but she was in choir ; taught herself to play piano and guitar and married a young man who also plays base.

The love of music was being passed down.

Granddaughter # 2 chose to take band and played in the percussion section.  As I sat in the stands and watched her walk back and forth during each song between the many instruments in the percussion section from the bells to the xylophone; the timpani and other instruments, I was amazed at the calmness and confidence she portrayed.  It takes real talent to do something like that. Although Granddaughter # 2 wasn’t in choir like her two sisters, her love of music shows in that she can usually sing all the words to songs she enjoys. Not only that, but her fiance is a guitar performance major in college and plans to teach in a college when he receives his degree.

Yes, the love of music will be passed down.

Granddaughter # 3, almost 14, is now showing her musical talent through a year of percussion in band and now in her second year of choir, recently being chosen 3^rd chair alto in regional competition.  And, she sings The Star Spangled Banner before a lot of  her schools ballgames; something I would never have attempted even at a much older age.

And, as I mentioned in an earlier post, both grandsons have a love of music and played or now play instruments of various kinds.

Wouldn’t life be boring without music? I can’t imagine my life or the life of our family without music. It has been said that music is a communicative activity which conveys to the listener moods, emotions, and thoughts. Music can lift one’s spirits or drag one down to the deepest depths. Music can mean one thing to one person and another thing to someone else.

I think the highest honor one can give music is to use it to glorify God.  The music one hears from one of God’s smallest creations; the song bird, is truly one of the most beautiful sounds of all.

“The flowers are springing up,

    the season of singing birds has come,

    and the cooing of turtledoves fills the air.” Song of Solomon 2:12 NLT

 

“Good people, cheer God!

    Right-living people sound best when praising.

Use guitars to reinforce your Hallelujahs!

    Play his praise on a grand piano!

Invent your own new song to him;

    give him a trumpet fanfare.” Psalm 33: 1-3 The Message