Sounds in a Chord

You think very highly of children. Aren’t you wrong?

I speak on the basis of thirty years of teaching-experience, hundreds of children have gotten very close to me, many of them very close to my soul.

According to the Gospel, the “kingdom of heaven” is where children can enter. This kingdom sends signals to the Earth, too, sometimes in the likeness of a falling star, darting in fiery brilliance and at other times in quiet vibration, slow in an andante.  One could even perceive a signal perhaps in an adagio that appears like clouds gathering for a faraway storm. 

Such gathering clouds have so many layers, you can’t even imagine even though you can see them in white, grey, purple and silver, one of them swirling, the other in veiled drizzling, or in promising stillness. You really have only an idea about how far they are floating from each other.

Like sounds in a chord?

Yes, just like sounds in a chord. If you are lucky, you hear them together, and not dissected as in an exercise of harmonic analysis. The pitches sound together, in their magic, their brilliance, their thirst, their passions, their appeasement, and their devotion.

This is the whole message of the harmony. I suspect that children who are not trained in music but are prepared for the joy of music listen to it in this was. Perhaps angels do so too. I hope so.