December 23: Music is like a great mother who holds our memories and traditions
together, and making sure our most important events are experienced with great
dignity, and showing we are each extraordinarily gifted to be
present. Music is used by young people to help define their collective
generation, and to bind them in a common experience. Music is used by the
military to instill both fear and courage. Markets use it to enhance experience
and motivate people when shopping. It is used by some hospitals to facilitate
healing. We speak of the essentials of life as being in terms of things like
food, clothing and shelter. But throughout human history we also have found
that the sounds of our music are an essential component to our common life.
Birds, too, and other species, have ways of using sound to express their life
together. Can there be a Christmas without music? God came into our world and
we have been singing about it ever since.
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