Sometimes I think back through my week and what has been happening in my life and I think, I can’t write about that for the Secretary’s Corner…but nothing else is new in life. This week is much like that. My week has been taken up mostly with post-wisdom-tooth-extraction recovery.
This feels like a silly thing to talk about. Pretty much all there is to say is my head has been hurting for like three days. I feel a little silly bringing that up. But when I started this segment (over a year ago now…which is crazy) I wanted it to be a look into my thoughts of the week. And on a week like this, my thoughts aren’t so polished as they are other weeks.
So here we are. I actually feel a lot better today, but the last few days have been miserable, as you might imagine. I had one particularly bad night where I initially fell asleep for an hour or so, then woke up and couldn’t fall back asleep because I was in pain for a long time. I decided to turn on some worship music, because laying awake in the dark with an obnoxious owl “who-ing” every ten seconds is not relaxing.
So I found my speaker, got it situated beside my bed, and turned on my worship playlist – quietly, so I wouldn’t disturb the rest of my household. And lo and behold, I suddenly felt a lot calmer. I didn’t sleep for a little while after that, but there was so much more peace. I periodically woke up through the rest of the night, and it was comforting to have worship just sort of floating in the air.
All this to say, there is something remarkable about music. I think it has a lot more power than we realize.
