This is a video of an instrument, albeit imaginary, that makes incredible music. I suppose if I knew how to slow down the speed, to say one ball per day, it would be less riveting. It would feel more like random clangs than a song.

 

I wonder if that is like our lives. 

 

Each day that I work on my relationship with John, can seem like an isolated event, like a lonely Bb. We are hammering out the details of our son's college loans, and while we do come to a joint decision, it reminds me of a bong more than a lyrical chime. The next day we work on solving the issue of the broken oven. I riffle through the filing cabinet to find the original owner's manual. He looks up the problem on line, and orders the new part. A few days later the oven works again and I celebrate by making apple crisp. Not exactly a melodic process by itself. 

 

But if we could see and hear our marriages, sped up like a four minute minuet, I suspect it would be mesmerizing. Actually, I think that is exactly what happens when we die. We see our lives in a high speed movie, and all of the isolated scenes flow together in an incredible sequence, orchestrated by God.  

 

-Emanuel Swedenborg, Heavenly Secrets 6490

 

 

 

 

 

 

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