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Sunday, May 10, 2020
Lux Aeterna
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pigpen51
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Ragin' Dave,
I have been a musician all my life, even playing sax in a rock and roll band for a few years. And I have played many different instruments during my years in music, starting from age 11 or so. However, I have never been one who could say that I have a good voice of any kind. In fact when I sing, I get a lot of requests. Most of the requests are for me to stop. It hasn't been until the last few years that I began to enjoy and appreciate this type of music. I don't know for sure the proper name of it, but I would have to think of it as Chamber Music. And it is just beautiful, and majestic, and it makes me glad that I have the ability to hear, it is so powerful, and it encourages a heart that is prepared to worship God. That is not to say that for some people, hard rock cannot do the same for them. Because there are some modern rock songs that can move me, also. It is just that I never grew up in the church, and so I have perhaps what would be considered too much of a dependence on the old school method of what church is meant to be. But I cannot help it, it is just who I am. I can also be moved to worship via the sweet smell of a fresh cut field of hay, or the smell of certain types of flowers, or of some flowering trees. Just some of the beauty that I can tell that God has given to us, for our own amusement/ability to see and to be impressed in knowing that God made these things, for our own pleasure and benefit. Anyway, I just had to thank you for giving me such a beautiful moment,on this, Mother's day, and a chance to share it with my wife,the mother of the last 2 of my 5 children. May you find yourself blessed beyond compare, in the coming week.
I didn't grow up with this specific kind of music either, although dad tried his best to educate me with classical music. I played a lot of classical pieces in high school, but I was either playing jazz or hard rock throughout my decades of drums. It wasn't until I was in my 30's that I started really discovering the old Church music. I think it's beautiful, and so I try to bring it to the forefront of other people's experiences as well.
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Ragin' Dave,
I have been a musician all my life, even playing sax in a rock and roll band for a few years. And I have played many different instruments during my years in music, starting from age 11 or so.
However, I have never been one who could say that I have a good voice of any kind. In fact when I sing, I get a lot of requests. Most of the requests are for me to stop.
It hasn't been until the last few years that I began to enjoy and appreciate this type of music. I don't know for sure the proper name of it, but I would have to think of it as Chamber Music. And it is just beautiful, and majestic, and it makes me glad that I have the ability to hear, it is so powerful, and it encourages a heart that is prepared to worship God.
That is not to say that for some people, hard rock cannot do the same for them. Because there are some modern rock songs that can move me, also. It is just that I never grew up in the church, and so I have perhaps what would be considered too much of a dependence on the old school method of what church is meant to be. But I cannot help it, it is just who I am.
I can also be moved to worship via the sweet smell of a fresh cut field of hay, or the smell of certain types of flowers, or of some flowering trees. Just some of the beauty that I can tell that God has given to us, for our own amusement/ability to see and to be impressed in knowing that God made these things, for our own pleasure and benefit.
Anyway, I just had to thank you for giving me such a beautiful moment,on this, Mother's day, and a chance to share it with my wife,the mother of the last 2 of my 5 children. May you find yourself blessed beyond compare, in the coming week.
pigpen51
I didn't grow up with this specific kind of music either, although dad tried his best to educate me with classical music. I played a lot of classical pieces in high school, but I was either playing jazz or hard rock throughout my decades of drums. It wasn't until I was in my 30's that I started really discovering the old Church music. I think it's beautiful, and so I try to bring it to the forefront of other people's experiences as well.
I hope your Mother's Day was as good as mine was!
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