I love to use music as a doorway to prayer.
Ann Kulp has so beautifully shared this creative way we pray.
Today’s post is by the late Ann Kulp
Music has called us to prayer through the ages: the shofar, psalm, pipes, harp, trumpet, the peal of bells, the carillon, and symphony. Some of us have been stilled and called through Tibetan bowls, whose sound lingers and leads us into the silence of waiting. There is the music of the gurgling brook, wind in the rustling trees, the chirping of cicadas and other natural sounds. There is the music of Native American flute, a jazz band, a Gregorian chant. It matters not what kind. Each is an echo of some sound heard eons ago, and perhaps remembered. At different times in our lives we may hear sounds that become moments of such recollection, drawing us more deeply into the attitude called prayer.
As I ponder the meaning of music for me, I have a sense of being touched deeply, as though…
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Wow, this is awesome. I’m going to reblog this. Just loved it and have found it to be true! 🙂 ❤
It’s always helpful when I find something another has written that says exactly what I would have said, but I didn’t need to take the time to write it myself. 🙂