Music Moves…
I saw this video on Good Morning American this morning, and was pulled in right away…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0dzZTPWrSM
I’ll never stop being intrigued by the power of music to speak to some deep, hidden parts of our spirits in some mystical way. I don’t know the guy in the video. This is the first time I’ve ever seen him, but after I heard a little bit of his story, and then began to hear him sing, my emotions began to well up. The emotion of the song, paired with the unlikeliness of the singer really touched me. Even though the foreign words of the song made no sense to me, it spoke feelings of longing and hope and freedom to my heart all at the same time (yes, I know this is sounding sappy).
It reminds me of the scene in The Shawshank Redemption when Andy Dufresne locked himself in with the prison’s PA system and played a record of Canzonetta Sull’aria from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro to be heard all over the prison. For a moment, all of the prisoners paused their gray, hopeless lives and basked in the golden song of two sopranos as they sung some spiritual message of hope deep into their souls.
I’ve heard it said that God began His story by singing creation into existence with “Let there be light,” and that He fades out the future singing His finale “Yes, I’m coming soon!” Some believe that a constant soundtrack is sung by God himself from the first moment to the last, singing a song of hope and invitation to His people. Maybe that is the song we strangely recognize in the notes and voices that stir us unexpectedly.
I meant no Sunday School lesson or deep spiritual point here, just fascination…
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