“Live More Musically” session 1

-Harmony: note C (major) is a combination of various frequencies
-we all are searching to live our lives in harmony with what God has designed
-Rhythm
-first thing we hear is the rhythm of our mother’s heart
-Meaning
-you want the song to give meaning to the moment you are in
-Improvisation

How do we get these things?

Playing a CD vs. Playing a violin
- how do they differ?
Violin: (a) personal investment, (b) discipline - time, (c) unpredictable, (d) preparation/maintenance, (e) flaws, (f) creativity, (g) active, (h) one place, (i) expensive, (j) tired, (k) few can do

CD: (a’) easy, (b’) instant, (c’) predict., (d’) batteries, etc., (e’) perfection, (f’) not, (g’) passive, (h’) many places, (i’) cheap, (j) infinite, (k’) anyone

What happens when you pratice and continue to? You eventually enjoy it.

What happens when you continue to enjoy it? You become satisfied.

The whole culture tells you that the way to live more musically is to be at a sustainable satisfaction (i.e., buy the CD) - get it now!

But lasting satisfaction comes with the hard road of practice

What’s addiction? Starts with the first time being very very satisfying
-keep looking to get it like the first time - but you can never get it
-eventually you kill yourself looking for the same satisfaction

Jesus, “Anyone who wants to save his life will lose it. Anyone who loses his life will find it.”
-if you start with what is unsatisfying you’ll find lasting satisfaction

We must convince people to lie their lives in the logic of “practice” and not “purchase”

The Psalms
-Psalm 1 - “happy” and “delight”
-all the psalms are about how to be happy
-you being blessed comes from giving of yourself
-but it comes from “practice” (not purchase)
-as you pratice it produces longevity
-ends on a dark note - last word “doomed”
-scornful isn’t just unhappy - it is refusal to be happy
-what is doomed? Being unblessable - not allowing blessing

The way of God is about being the person who is delighted