It's a Crunchy Life

A quote:

"By the goodness of God we mean nowadays almost exclusively His lovingness; and in this we may be right. And by love, in this context, most of us mean kindness - the desire to see others than the self happy; not happy in this way or in that, but just happy. What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, ‘What does it matter so long as they are contented?’ We want in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven - a senile benevolence who, as they say, ‘liked to see young people enjoying themselves’, and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, ‘a good time was had by all’. Not many people, I admit, would formulate a theology in precisely those terms: but a conception not very different lurks at the back of many minds. I do not claim to be and exception: I should very much like to live in a universe which was governed on such lines. But since it is abundantly clear that I don’t, and since I have reason to believe, nevertheless, that God is Love, I conclude that my conception of love needs correction."

from The Problem of Pain
C.S. Lewis

Dischords or as my Dad calls them crunches. The music we sing is full of them. We may not like them, but without them we would never have what comes next. Resolution.
This may sound a bit dark, but this action mirrors life. In this life we have trials. These are not for just any reason, they are for the furtherance of God’s purposes. We may not understand them. We may need to change our thinking of what we expect. We may also need to change our response to these crunches in our life. We may need to learn to take joy in the outworking of God’s purpose. This is the life of a Christian. It was for the disciples, it was for Paul, we should expect no less than our lives to reflect those of the Christian soldiers that have gone before us.

Of course we have a goal to look forward to, and this is the resolution.

Now what does this have to do with music? A quote from some favourite musicians, Sixpence None the Richer:

but tension is to be loved
when it is like a passing note
to a beautiful, beautiful chord