Sacred Sound

I prepared the Sunday service at the UU Church of Concord last Sunday on Sacred Sound.

winter sunset at Seapoint Beach, Kittery Point, ME

Here is an excerpt from my sermon:

 

Sound

Shimmers, soothes, shines

Sound

Sings, centers, celebrates

Sound

Endures

Sound

Connects, convenes

Challenges the status quo

Sound births, romances, marries, separates, and mourns

 

Sound relieves

Pain, fear, anxiety

Sound heals

 

Sound makes disconsonance consonant

Chaos clear

Separation united

 

Sound celebrates the color of diversity

Each note

Each articulation

Each crescendo and diminuendo

 

Sound entrains

Every cell to its signature tune

Every chord to the harmony of its highest vibration

Every soul to the celestial symphony

 

Sound makes space

Between atoms

Between cells

Between muscles, organs and bones

Between our endless streaming thoughts

Between our consuming emotions

Our constrictions, restrictions and rules

Sound makes space

For stillness

For now

And the new

 

We breathe –

The body expands

Releases

We inhale space

We exhale sound

A whisper of air

A sigh

A sound

A song

Our heart opens

And we are once again

United

Aware

Body, heart and mind

 

The soul calls

We answer with a song.

 

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