I miss playing music. I went to a wind ensemble concert a few days ago and it really made me want to play music again. They played a 5-movement piece that went through different stages in the book of Genesis- these included the creation of man, the fall of man, the flood, and two others that i don't remember. The flood movement was humongously epic. There was a lot of good stuff in it. I think i've come to appreciate music a lot in the last few years. I really think that if I could start college over again I might be a music major. The fact that I took so many years of piano lessons and then completely quit because i hated practicing makes me literally sick to my stomach. I don't know anything on the piano any more. I want to teach myself again, but I think I would get frustrated very quickly and spend a lot of time playing with very little improvement. The same thing seems to happen to me on the guitar. I wish i could play like these guys.
I know I talk about this a lot (my last post was a poem about this), but I have come to the conclusion that most people talk way too much and don't communicate enough.
Make sense?
We are so quick to open our mouths. I think a lot of the time when we talk, our words don't really mean anything. We just want to talk. There are a lot of other and better ways to communicate than just running our mouths. The eyes communicate a lot. As do hands and pretty much every movement done by our bodies. Music says so much. Without ever uttering a word.
God has blessed me with a great friend recently. This person is an inspiration to me and somebody who I feel like I can really invest in and vice versa. Good friends are one of the biggest blessing that we can be given in my opinion. Praise Him for answering prayer and being sovereign.
Scar Symmetry is a great band. I don't know how I went so long without ever hearing about them. They very well balance and contrast heavy and light sounds.
I need help to walk in the Spirit and to mortify my flesh. To embrace the plague that Christ infects our sinful natures with, as Becoming the Archetype boldly puts it. pray for me if you remember.
Peace
