The Room of music

Within the home of our heart are many rooms, castles, mansions, places that we can reach by contemplation, prayer, or other kinds of meditation. Or just by listening to the sights and sounds of life that surrounds us.  

Here on Pastor’s Porch, we are discussing this notion as the home in our hearts. We are moving through this home and exploring these different rooms within our soul.  

Our journey began in the base of this home where knowledge resides within our own innate wisdom and the wisdom of our faith elders. The base of our spiritual home is our faith that sustains us. Faith that can be deepened through exploration, much more than certainty. 

Our next room is the music room. Where we are invited to listen and maybe even sing a song as a vehicle to realize how tuned we can be to the vibrations of creation.  

The strings of the guitar are struck, and the vibrations make a sound that is pleasing to our ears. The singer comes in and shares a story from their soul. Other instruments join in and make music together. All the sounds that make up our favorite songs are vibrations that spread out for us to hear, reverberating in our ear drums.  

In the room of music our favorite songs can be called up just by a fleeting memory. I know that for me Rubber Band Man by the spinners takes me back. I can still remember the little white radio with a Chewbacca sticker affixed playing on WLS radio in Chicago Illinois.  

This room is a bit different.  

The room of music in our hearts helps us sing of the goodness of God in our lives. It offers us the opportunity to learn how the vibrations of creation echo throughout time and place. 

This room helps in two different ways. It helps us to match the vibrations of creation by offering music of our memories and invites us to sing.  

When we really break it down all sound is vibration.

All of creation has a song to sing.

In this room we are free to join in the singing and add our own song to the world. We can sing of joy, lament, pain, sorrow, laughter, and even anger. We are free to sing the songs of our soul and listen to the vibrations of our spirit.

For in this room we are reminded that we tune in to the sounds of our lives and we can join in the chorus of humanity and sing of God’s presence deep in our soul.

Can you hear it?

Can you hear the harmony of God?

Can you hear the song of God?

Take a seat in the room of your spirit.

Listen.

God is singing the song of our hearts.