I live my life with a constant soundtrack running through my head. If there is no song playing in my head at any given moment, there’s probably something wrong with me. I read an entire book the other day with a song playing in my head the entire time, (which was kind of nice because it fit really well and pretty much became the theme song for the book) and I wasn’t even listening to music before/during the reading.
And there’s another thing: I can read and listen to music at the same time with ease. Usually it is movie soundtracks (often curated to fit the theme of the book) but even words don’t mess me up too much. Somehow the television in the background is much more distracting for me than music…not sure how that makes sense.
Music is an integral part of my existence. I listen to it a lot – probably too much. I listen at work, in the car, in my room, when I’m cleaning, while I’m reading… I legitimately lugged a Makita (power tool) speaker all over the place for music for like a year. And then I was given a much more portable speaker that will now be my plus-one at all events for the foreseeable future.
Music is everywhere for me. And while I like it this way, I sometimes think I maybe miss out on the quiet space that God has for me in my life. I don’t like sitting in complete silence all the time. There are moments when I can just have silence…but not a lot.
I want to learn to spend time with God both in worship with music, and in worship in other ways. To pray in the quiet, to still my heart before him.
So I will try to do that. I will try, as hard as it is, to turn off the music and the noise and simply spend time in silence with God.
