"When you begin to think outside the box, you often become some other "leaders" lousy follower. That usually costs something" (Andy Rayner)

"Our guardian angels are bored." (Mike Foster)

It's where I feel I'm at these days. “In the second half of life, it is good just to be a part of the general dance. We do not have to stand out, make defining moves, or be better than anyone else on the dance floor. Life is more participatory than assertive, and there is no need for strong or further self-definition” (Falling Upward. Richard Rohr.120).

Saturday, August 10, 2019

Music Chases The Devil Away

Sent this interesting fact to my ethnomusicologist friend today.

"Not insignificantly, the liturgy of the church is seen as Christianity’s first theology. Martin Luther made a liturgical suggestion that sometimes a hymn or hymns be substituted for various segments of the litany on occasion because “[Music] drives away the Devil and makes people cheerful; one forgets all anger, unchasteness, pride, and other vices. I place music next to theology and give it the highest praise.… I would not change my little knowledge of music for a great deal.…Experience proves that next to the Word of God only music deserves to be extolled as the mistress and governess of the feelings of the human heart.”

- Leonard Sweet. AquaChurch 2.0. He sights his source as follows 

(From Martin Luther’s Table Talk. See Robin A. Leaver, Luther’s Liturgical Music (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007), 100; note 153 contains additional source information about this passage. See also a variation of the quote in Roland Bainton, Here I Stand (New York: Abingdon, 1950), 341.)
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