Bach to Barth

Thursdays would be more fun if I had a lisp.

So right now I'm listening to "Hosanna in Excelsis" sung by Placido Domingo. It's part of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem. It's absolutely incredible. It's one of those songs that makes me want to put my ear onto the speaker and stuff a pillow into the other one so I can be totally absorbed into the sound.
The SOUND.
That's the most phenomenal word, don't you think? Is there anything intangible that you wish were a physical object?
It's one of those words that I wish I was able to feel. I would love to experience it in my bones and in the pores of my skin.
I wish I could wrap myself up in it like a blanket, or jump into it like water, or squish it through my fingers like clay on a pottery wheel.
Can you imagine feeling music bubbles floating and dancing over your skin? Or resting on your eyelashes? And moving like invisible fingers in your hair?
I can.
And it makes me want to grin and run and twirl and split open from the inside all at the same time.
Like there's just too much going on in my brain to possibly be contained within several plates of bone.
I will be so exceptionally excited to meet Jesus. Let me explain.
There is a lot of crap down here on Earth. A LOT of crap. There's too much to mention, really.
If I were to begin listing the amount of people in pain, or lost without homes, or jobs, or families, or the people who need medical care and don't have it, or those who don't have clean water or the elderly who just want someone to talk to it would overwhelm me and make me cry. I can't watch the news because I get overburdened with other people's sorrow. There is SO much pain and anger and devastation out there.
BUT.
Then there's Placido Domingo. And Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem. And Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
The Grand Canyon. Niagara Falls. The White Cliffs of Dover. Sunsets in Maui. The Great Barrier Reef. The Pyramids in Egypt, the Great Wall of China, Hagia Sophia, the Roman Colosseum, Machu Picchu, the Aurora Borealis.
BABIES.
Holy crap!
Have you ever stopped to look at the leaves in the fall? Have you ever noticed that time and color don't coincide? When you're lost in the brilliance of autumn, even when it's the linear change that has brought the leaf to your attention, time loses all meaning. It's the COLOR that wins.
Maybe I'm feeling a bit ramble-y. But I'm just in awe today. Of the amount of AMAZING that exists. There's so much wonder in the midst of so much woe. The key is to look for it. And Jesus made all of it. And today it's only a shadow of what it was supposed to be.
I promised you I'd wax philosophical several weeks ago.
So how'd I do? :)