Monotony is something people and organizations seem to fall in to quite easily. The mono-toned life is colorless, absent harmonies and movements...boring. Is that really life? Isn't monotony something other than life? Life is more than busy motion and noise. Life is a constantly developing symphony, choral, song...with heart stirring movements and harmonies. Layers upon layers of voices and instruments that express life's beauties and pains, joys and sorrows, hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares.
I love music. All kinds of music. One of my favorite things to do while driving or at home is to turn my stereo up to where I am fully enveloped and can physically feel the the sounds. Classic, Rock, some Country, Choral, R&B, Jazz...I listen to a broad range of stuff. Depends on my mood. Sometimes I conduct, sometimes I dance. Music moves me to tears of awe, to laughter, to pain. More often than not, something about it stirs me and causes me to keep seeing, keep hoping, keep acting, keep believing.
Life does that for me as well. I see and feel the pains, joys, fears, dreams of the world around me. It stirs me. Brokenness stirs me to want to act and restore. Life turn-around stories stir me to believe it can happen. Beauty and wholeness stir me to want to cultivate more.
How are you being stirred by the music of the world around you? Do you hear the music or is your world hum-drum monotony? Find the music again!
