Post 134. jmj
This week I created a YouTube playlist exploring the Bible and Our Relationship to Earth. At this point I have read some verses, mostly from Genesis, and sung "The Creator Has a Master Plan", a song by Pharoah Sanders and Leon Thomas. And Psalm 147 sings: "He sends his commands to the earth." The Lord holds onto mastery of his creation. The main message of the bible is that the earth is "the Lord's" (Psalm 24), and that we are stewards. We have been terrible stewards, especially in recent years with tar-sands and deep water oil extraction, mountaintop removal mining, fracking, lithium mining, plastic waste disposal, e-waste, chemical-intensive methods of farming and animal factories, just to name a few of the ways we destroy, and don't care for Earth. The way we eat, and the way we travel to and from work are destroying Mother Earth, who is the Lord's, and ours to care for. In this, I feel like a prophet. But unlike Jeremiah or Isaiah or even Jonah, I get to use the scriptures themselves. God blew into our nostril's the breath of life, making us from soil. We are made to imagine just like the Lord (Genesis 1:26-29) and our dominion comes from the Lord; but we are made to imagine--in the image--to create in a way that expresses our LOVE for this gift. God said (Genesis 1:3) life into existence, not us. We cannot make but by redirecting God's material creation, the Lord who created material ex nihilo. What is any sort of music education, or education at all, if we don't start from this humble realization? Our place?
DS
Image link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Appearance_Rock,_Fiolent,_Christianity_in_Crimea.jpg
This week I created a YouTube playlist exploring the Bible and Our Relationship to Earth. At this point I have read some verses, mostly from Genesis, and sung "The Creator Has a Master Plan", a song by Pharoah Sanders and Leon Thomas. And Psalm 147 sings: "He sends his commands to the earth." The Lord holds onto mastery of his creation. The main message of the bible is that the earth is "the Lord's" (Psalm 24), and that we are stewards. We have been terrible stewards, especially in recent years with tar-sands and deep water oil extraction, mountaintop removal mining, fracking, lithium mining, plastic waste disposal, e-waste, chemical-intensive methods of farming and animal factories, just to name a few of the ways we destroy, and don't care for Earth. The way we eat, and the way we travel to and from work are destroying Mother Earth, who is the Lord's, and ours to care for. In this, I feel like a prophet. But unlike Jeremiah or Isaiah or even Jonah, I get to use the scriptures themselves. God blew into our nostril's the breath of life, making us from soil. We are made to imagine just like the Lord (Genesis 1:26-29) and our dominion comes from the Lord; but we are made to imagine--in the image--to create in a way that expresses our LOVE for this gift. God said (Genesis 1:3) life into existence, not us. We cannot make but by redirecting God's material creation, the Lord who created material ex nihilo. What is any sort of music education, or education at all, if we don't start from this humble realization? Our place?
DS
Image link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Appearance_Rock,_Fiolent,_Christianity_in_Crimea.jpg
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