Making music

Sweet Loving Lord,

Tonight we got to enjoy an amazing concert.  The combined high school bands of Camden Frontier, Springport, and Climax-Scotts played an amazing concert, and created some fantastic musical moments.

One piece was composed in memory and honor of those who were wounded and died in the Columbine High School shooting.  There were moments in the piece that you could feel the sadness of the entire community.  There was a moment when you could hear the lone trumpeter playing in the distance, like so many children speaking in one voice that it's okay to go on.  It's okay to live on and enjoy life and try to return to normal. There were moments when you could hear their Alma Mater ringing through. During other movements of the piece, I could almost picture the normal activities of high school kids cheering at a basketball game, or getting ready for a school dance. Living on.  

The idea of the piece is beautiful. The performance of it was fantastic.  It was so amazing to see my daughter and her friends so completely absorbed in the magic that happens when one is intimately part of music happening.

It makes me think of the amazing joy that occurs when we join our voices with all of Heaven and all of Creation in the Mass. Sometimes, just for a fleeting moment, I look around and feel the voices of all of Creation join with mine, and we worship together. The harmonies echo through my body. When that happens, we become more because we are together. In Love. With you.

In music, I find a lovely visit with you. I'm so thankful that my kids got to experience that visit with you also.

Love,

Me.