More than sound

"I want to catch in a song notes I won't hear yet but I will when I'm gone."

What is it about music? It can change me, it can affect me, it can speak to me, it can make me cry or smile, want to live or want to die, love or hate, sit in silence or scream, stand still or throw my body against a wall. What is this that has such power? More than sound?

When everything seems to go wrong, when the image I try to keep is slipping away or the life I try to keep control of spirals into insanity the thought of music comforts me. I know that I can close it all away, throw myself into a song and dissapear for a while. I know that I can come back changed, strengthened, reassured. But it's more than music and sound is just a tool. Surely it's the spirit of G-d flowing through these songs and that's where the power lies, it's His voice speaking, it's His beauty that makes the song so beautiful. And can't we have the same spirit in each of us? If He can make something so simple (and yet so complex) as sound beautiful, can't He make you and I beautiful to?

Let go and fall into Him.