A Motzart concerto played by a new/young musician and by an established virtuoso will NOT sound the same. It would not be possible because the older more experienced musician has had a lifetime to practice the music as well as to learn when and where to pause in order to color the notes with passion. Ah, that is the true talent now isn't? Knowing when to pause to feel the passion and see the beauty.
This same truth follows each of us individually in the symphony of our lives. Individual notes must be learned and played and practiced, practiced, practiced before we can achieve harmony. And above all, we must learn that all important ability to pause...
In my life, I have come to understand that harmony is the inner beat of contentment I feel when the melody of life is in tune. When, somehow, I am able to strike just the right chord, hit the right notes to balance the expectations of family, friends and my responsibilities to the world on the one hand with my inner needs for spiritual growth, love, and personal expression with the other. This has probably been one of the most difficult challenges I have faced in my almost 55 years because it has required me to make choices every day. Oft times, in my day to day life, I find myself too tired to even decide what to make for dinner let make these major choices and yet... choices must be made. Perhaps that is why I, and probably you dear reader, only hear a cacophony of dissonant chords... the demands, chaos, and complaints that down out the symphonies of our souls.
In the past, when the distractions and chaos of life depleted my energy, the first thing I eliminated was the thing I needed most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to think, time to contemplate what's working and what is not, time to replenish the well so that I can make changes for the better... ones that will help me heal and allow me to be able to give more.
So I am learning, again, how to pause. I am learning to balance demands with pleasures, moments of solitude with the need for companionship, work with play (ah my greatest foible), activity with rest and the inner me with the outer packaging.
Today, I am deliberately slowing down. Not because cancer, fear, or exhaustion forces me to, but because spirit, love, and need call me to. I have approached this day, after a very stressful, chaotic night of harassment, anger, and hate, as if it were an adagio -- a melody played in an easy, graceful manner. Listen! Can you hear it? The music that soothes and uplifts your spirit?
Now, while you listen to this symphony with me, pause to consider how each indiidual note comes together in complete harmony with proper pauses to give expression to the entire piece.
So it shall be with my world and yours. With harmony as my guide, I am certain that my every day moments will begin to sing out in a rhapsody of fulfillment, joy, love and an end to chaos and want...
Vivaldi's Four Seasons is on my CD player... the smell of Apples and cinnamon emanates from candles... the house glows in peace... a glass of wine is waiting to be sipped and savored; care to join me?
Enjoy the music of your life... and dance.
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