Universal Harmony
The universe is all music, but it is not all music to our ear. We only hear a few chords, and they are minor chords. The minor chords seem discords when they stand alone; they want the full symphony to bring out their symmetry. Brother, do not complain that you are living in a world of discords. You are living in a world of perfect music, only you hear but a small portion of the music. The melody is not to come later in God’s program, it has come already. The morning stars sang together, and have always sung together. The universe is one glorious love song and all who are in love with life can hear and enjoy some measure of it.
—George Matheson.
Music In All Things
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night,
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Sit, Jessica. Look! how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
There’s not the smallest orb, which thou behold’st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim;
Such harmony is in immortal souls.
But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
-William Shakespeare.
Alternate Reading: John 14: 1-14.