Music plays a regular role in our home....always has. I remember shortly after we were married Bruce came home telling me about this stereo system a friend of his had and was selling...and how we really needed it....and the bass amplifier and the tape deck and the 3 disk CD changer. (I realize I am dating myself a tad). So he told me how much we could pay each month and we he decided this was a good idea. Thus rekindling his love affair with the Bee Gees, Don Williams, Chicago, REO Speedwagon, The Gatlin Brothers and pretty much any artist I hadn't developed a taste for. We were sooooo opposites when it came to music.
But today...after almost 18 years of marriage we tend to agree on the sounds that make us the happiest. Like....
hearing our children pray....
.....the laughter as we tickle tiny toes....
the songs that fill the bathtub at wash time.....
....the clanging of pots and pans as children learn responsibility.....
the piano keys as they are pounded out ...
....the crashing of matchbox cars on the track....
the whispered goodnights...
...the "one more time" pleas
...the "I love you more" games....
...the echos of our own voices replicated in those tiny bodies
This music we agree on. The best, most beautiful, melodic...and yet somedays chaotic. This music fills our lives with much more than some 80's beat could ever manage. It represents the best...and sometimes the worst of us. It has the power to move us....to challenge us to do better...to laugh more...to invest more....to teach more...to pray more...to draw closer....to watch....to sing...to dance....just a little more. Because the music will change in just a few years...the station will play sounds of cars starting, boys calling, phones ringing....and while we will grow to love that music too....it will never be this station...this moment or this melody.
Thankful for today...embracing it.
2 comments:
That was a great Blog Gina!
Loved it! Almost made me cry.
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