Today, we continued to explore the ways in which music provides us a family.
Ideally, family and friends are people who will never abandon us. Unfortunately, that's not always the case.
David Dubal once told my class that music will never abandon us. I think this is true in virtually everyone's case. We develop a relationship with music from childhood, and that relationship continues and deepens, if we nurture it, for as long as we live. Family and friends may forsake us, but music will still be with us providing memory, catharsis, and a vehicle for expression. This is one way in which music is a great gift to humanity.
Two New Testament examples:
Paul and Silas had music as their companion in jail.
Jesus, in his most dire hour, quoted a psalm. On the cross, he remembered the words of scripture and found expression in a song.
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