The Hills Are Alive With the Sounds of Music

The Hills Are Alive With The Sounds of Music

Yes indeed – the hills are very alive with the sounds of music – with songs they have sung for a thousand years!!!!!!
Do you remember Maria (Julie Andrews) at the start of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, “The Sound of Music” as she ran free and wild in the hills, singing with her magnificent voice about how the hills felt and looked to her?
Well, not everyone is fortunate enough to live in a country such as Austria where these hills and flowers abound all over the place. But I bet if you get in your car and take a little drive somewhere – almost anywhere outside of a big city – you can find such a field and feel just as free and alive as Maria! For flowers, hills, and music are some of God’s great gifts to us. They are free, cost nothing to enjoy, and will bring to you the sweet fragrance that is also part of God. This is why Maria felt so free in those hills - she was full of “the spirit” which is God. And the Love that travels always with “the Spirit”. It’s infectious. Perhaps if more of us could just close our eyes, visualize those hills, the flowers, and the music we would always be full of life, love, and spirit instead of downcast about things which are not going right in our lives.
Can you imagine a world without music? All kinds of music. I can’t. It would be quite desolate, I think. For music affects each one of us profoundly. Perhaps to the young fellow on the street of a poor urban area – perhaps he is listening to Rap through his ear phones. And those down in New Orleans, even as Katrina blew through, and especially in the aftermath – perhaps they were listening to New Orleans type jazz. For others regardless of where they are, maybe it was orchestral music – the magnificent sounds coming from a symphony hall with great acoustics which fill us with the incredible sounds of the classics written by those inspired to reach all the way to the depths of our souls. God lives there, you know, and God loves the classics. As do I. With all of the great pieces of music written by our most inspired musical geniuses, surely there is a classical piece that will be of special appeal to you – you need only search for and find it.
Can you imagine a world without flowers? Again, I can’t. For flowers bring the color, dance, and whispering winds into our lives. As beautiful as “arrangements” can be, there is none that can compete with the wild flowers grown by God, watered by His tears, and spread in endless fields for us to gasp in amazement as we behold them.
Can you imagine a world without grass and hills? I wouldn’t want to see a completely flat terrain throughout our planet – it would do little to inspire me to climb my own personal hills and mountains as I journey through life, so that I am glad for these on our terrain as we view and then try to climb them, either figuratively or literally.
I used to think it was Sir Edmund Hillary when asked why he climbed Mt. Everest who replied “because it is there”, but I have since discovered it was somebody before him whose name escapes me, but the important thing is that somebody did say this, and no other explanation is really needed.
Because it is there. Why must we cope as well as we can with our personal problems? Because they are there. There cannot be a human in the world who doesn’t have some kind of problem with which they must cope, from the babies who are trying to learn how to crawl to the very old who are often measuring each step they must take with great precision and care because walking has become so difficult for them. To the young person in love who must decide if he/she is the “right one” for me, to those contemplating surgery for some illness who must ask themselves – is he/she the right surgeon for me at this time. Everyone is coping – even God copes. In fact, I believe He copes most of all though he also copes best. He must cope with so many things going on throughout His universe at once that it boggles the mind that he does it so perfectly that everything keeps on humming along. We could take some pointers from Him, in fact. But mostly just remember that we all must cope – because the problems are there. For those who insist on sticking their heads in the sand, the problems will continue to multiply – nothing goes away all by itself and disappears completely
Not even a Black Hole in the Universe. Though we can’t see them, they are there. In fact, one may have had everything to do with the origin of the Universe – astrophysicists and cosmologists are still looking into this. The Universe is utterly fascinating even to a lay person such as myself who really knows little about Physics because it is a physical manifestation of God, and like God it is awesome and perfectly balanced. We will some day understand, I believe, how God made the Universe, but we will never be able to comprehend – why. God allows us into his Mind as far as He chooses, but at that point we reach an end because we are not meant to understand All that there is about God.
Pure Spirit, pure Love, pure Energy – God is the Infinite, Perfection, Total Wisdom, Complete Love.
And while we are here, He has given us the hills and the sound of music. Let us revel in them and enjoy the fact that they were created for us.