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i gotta get up at 3:15 tomorrow, but i wanted to make a post featuring some meanderings. I wish that today i could have hooked a recorder to my brain to store my thoughts. good stuff-God stuff- just came to me.
I played Beethoven's 5th on the piano this afternoon. whenever i play it, i try and feel and picture the story it is telling. the story seems to switch every time, but today i beleive i have it right. the scene during the first eight notes is of "fate knocking at the door, " as Beethoven himself described. The few measures afterward express the initial reaction of the person at the other side of the door. although the knocks are few and short, he hears it as a suggestion, a threat. He is afraid, and like everybody's mind handles fear, it is embellished. The piece is about this guy's drama of the inevitable drawing near and announcing its presence, and in reluctance to accept it, the guy sinks deep into fear and worry for what his fate may be. In the end of the first movement, he is overcome by his own embellished portrait of what that fate may be. The second movement tells of his submission to and discovery of his fate, and by the third movement he's redeemed himself by some means and triumphed over his peril.
---the Christian music "Winter Jam 06" came to Bloomington today, and it was a blast when it was all said and done. there i really felt ministered to by some music, and i sensed God speaking to me on several occasions. The lead singer of Newsboys quoted Isaiah 53:1-11 on stage, and that was exemplary.
I was really encouraged to view people the way that God sees us. we each are amazing masterpieces of His creativity. we come into the world with a divine purpose as unique as we are, and satan would do all he can to misguide us into the meaningless so that we miss fulfilling our purpose.
---One line of a current Newsboys song is "and all the powers of darkness tremble at what they just heard; because all the powers of darkness can't drown out a single word, when all God's children sing 'Glory, glory, hallelujah, He reigns.' " i found that to be quite a profound reminder that my prayers cannot be stopped from getting to God except by the iniquity in my heart, and that when my heart is clean, I have a clean transmission line to the Father.
---the topic of God's Kingdom still lingers in my thoughts. ...
i need to stop there so i can sleep.
I played Beethoven's 5th on the piano this afternoon. whenever i play it, i try and feel and picture the story it is telling. the story seems to switch every time, but today i beleive i have it right. the scene during the first eight notes is of "fate knocking at the door, " as Beethoven himself described. The few measures afterward express the initial reaction of the person at the other side of the door. although the knocks are few and short, he hears it as a suggestion, a threat. He is afraid, and like everybody's mind handles fear, it is embellished. The piece is about this guy's drama of the inevitable drawing near and announcing its presence, and in reluctance to accept it, the guy sinks deep into fear and worry for what his fate may be. In the end of the first movement, he is overcome by his own embellished portrait of what that fate may be. The second movement tells of his submission to and discovery of his fate, and by the third movement he's redeemed himself by some means and triumphed over his peril.
---the Christian music "Winter Jam 06" came to Bloomington today, and it was a blast when it was all said and done. there i really felt ministered to by some music, and i sensed God speaking to me on several occasions. The lead singer of Newsboys quoted Isaiah 53:1-11 on stage, and that was exemplary.
I was really encouraged to view people the way that God sees us. we each are amazing masterpieces of His creativity. we come into the world with a divine purpose as unique as we are, and satan would do all he can to misguide us into the meaningless so that we miss fulfilling our purpose.
---One line of a current Newsboys song is "and all the powers of darkness tremble at what they just heard; because all the powers of darkness can't drown out a single word, when all God's children sing 'Glory, glory, hallelujah, He reigns.' " i found that to be quite a profound reminder that my prayers cannot be stopped from getting to God except by the iniquity in my heart, and that when my heart is clean, I have a clean transmission line to the Father.
---the topic of God's Kingdom still lingers in my thoughts. ...
i need to stop there so i can sleep.
posted by Radar | 9:10 PM
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