track twelve: moonlight sonata

i really love classical music. a lot. throwing a real classical piece on the cd was a must... track twelve is beethoven's moonlight sonata. no words... just music... for thought and meditation.

i use classical music while studying. i don't like to study *something i should be doing right now* so if i can make it more enjoyable by listening to music... heck yes, ima do it :) this song is one of my favorites...

i like to imagine beethoven watching the moonlight dance on the water or make shadows move across his street with fascination. having no audible connection to his world, he could only create what he thought things sounded like... the music of life... this is the music of the moon.

it is soft and serene... tranquil and awe-inspiring... calming and rejuvenating. do you not agree?

if we think about the function of the moon- keeping the forces of gravity in check, reflected by the daily ebb and flow of the oceans, lakes, and ponds of the earth- it is steady. it is constant. it maintains its rhythm... hear it in the song?

and there are the phases of the moon! *news flash* growing up we always had our favorites: the full moon, "God's toenail" moon, "no" moon, first/last quarter moon. there was a new moon every night. this, to me, is present in the song as the variated, repetitive element that keeps your attention. like the cycles of the moon, the notes are never expressed the same way. you can watch thousands displays of the moon and never see the same one repeat. there is always something new- a star, a cloud, a new skyscraper adding to the essence that is the night time horizon.

midnight skyscapes in the mountains are fabulous reminders of the power of God. nights are often clear, and the stars shine like *cliche* diamonds. it is true! it is as if you could reach out and pluck the star of your choice out of the sky... who can truly conceive the majestic nature of a star... something we see as a "twinkling" element of our nights is actually a huge ball of burning gases... and it has a color... and a name, a God-given name. and we think of them as pinpricks in a piece of black construction paper...

it just goes to show you that our minds are not capable of understanding... anything. it seems like the more answers we get, the questions arise. this is the point i take two steps back... the beethoven of my imagination may have had it right. maybe we are just supposed to be filled with wonder and amazement by the creations of God's hand. maybe we don't have to know all the answers in order to appreciate the entities that decorate our lives. moonlight sonata takes me to that place...

a place of thought and meditation... thoughts of the beauty of nature portrayed by beautiful music.