River Rhythms and ‘Happy Music’

I was reminded at the last concert of what happy music can sound like and what someone said a few years back at my brothers funeral.

Two very different events.

At my brothers funeral a daughter of one of his best friends came up and gave a short testimonial – and in tears said…”He brought the happy music into out house..”

At the concert there was dancing and pure joy from some hearing the songs being played. 

Ecclesiastes 3:4
“a time to weep and a time to laugh,
   a time to mourn and a time to dance,”

Or

1 Kings 1:40
”And all the people went up after him, playing flutes and rejoicing greatly, so that the ground shook with the sound.”

That sounds so great….making the ground shake with joyful sounds!

 

 

Some quotes about joy…

 

Joy is not the absence of suffering. It is the presence of God.
Robert Schuller

"The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance." Reflections on the Psalms
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis

 

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