This is our home. We all share it. From space, it seems to be a beautiful swirly marble. It is undoubtedly beautiful when seen from a distance, but with some reading, some travel, and some personal interaction (!) we discover it is actually an endlessly fascinating, horrifying, marvelous place with huge possibilities and enormous problems.
I personally tend to lean toward beauty, because its existence reveals that there are some things more than random physical processes going on. Some years ago I tried to express the beauty and my gratitude in a poem. I realized when I was done that it was meant to be a choral symphony. Now I don’t know many professional musicians or composers. Everyone I asked wasn’t interested. People told me I should write it myself. Hah! That was like asking a beginning horseback rider to perform dressage at the Olympics.
I am nothing if not persistent though, so I began writing the music using one computer program, then another, and finally LogicPro. I learned a lot and received many helpful comments from Noteflight.com members. It took years to write 7 minutes of music.
Then I discovered another issue. The music was a choral piece, and the words were important, but I couldn’t program words into the choral singing. Maybe someone can do it now, but I can’t. So I decided to turn the piece into a video with beautiful images and the words displayed where they appeared in the music. Still more time and learning. The result is the video you see above. It is called Lux Dei, the Light of God.
For those of you who read through this story, I thank you. Please accept any deficiencies as evidence that I didn’t know what I was doing, but did it anyway. It’s a good metaphor for life, I think.
If you think it is worthwhile, please share and like or subscribe. I will continue to post about beauty, wherever I find it. We all need reminders that not everything is a mess.
Not everything is a mess.