Silence.
Do you like silence or avoid it?
Typically, beginning music students struggle the most in observing the silent parts in their pieces. As a former music instructor, I’ve witnessed this many times over the years.
Our natural tendency is to fill any silence.
Yet, when I was working full time in music, I seldom turned music on in my car or at home. I craved silence back then because I was seldom in silence.
Now that I’m no longer working as a musician, I frequently find it harder to concentrate at work on quieter days than when there’s a great deal of activity around me. Mainly because I hear every single sound around me and want to know what it is.
Why does silence make many of us so uncomfortable?
What does this discussion of experiencing silence have to do with preparing our hearts for Christmas?
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