{"id":613,"date":"2022-02-02T05:46:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T05:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/?p=613"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:45:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T16:45:53","slug":"there-is-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"There is Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/There-is-Music-e1643780566234-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/There-is-Music-e1643780566234-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/There-is-Music-e1643780566234-980x551.jpg 980w, https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/There-is-Music-e1643780566234-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes when I go outside, I find a place to sit, close my eyes, and just listen.\u00a0 There is a vast soundscape in nature that I find most noticeable when I turn off all my other senses and focus deeply on what I hear.\u00a0 In every moment of the day, in every season, nature sings a song that speaks to our soul and creates a rhythm in tune with our hearts. It is in the soft rustling of the leaves on a windy day, in the sound of water flowing over rocks in a stream, in the sound of the wind blowing through fields of grain, and in the rhythm of the waves upon the shore. The songs change over the course of the day.\u00a0 It is in the bird\u2019s cheerful song in the morning and in the cricket\u2019s song at night.\u00a0 It changes with the weather and with the seasons.\u00a0 It is in the howling of stormy winter winds and in the gentle pattering of raindrops in the spring.\u00a0 This music is everywhere, all the time.\u00a0 All we have to do is step outside and listen\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>There is Music<\/strong>\r\nBy Krista Longeway\r\n\r\nThere is music in the air\u2026\r\nIt is nature\u2019s whispered prayer\r\nI wonder, do you hear it\r\nCalling softly to your spirit?\r\n\r\nThere is music everywhere\r\nIf we listen with great care\r\nThere is music in the breeze\r\nBlowing softly through the trees\r\nIn the sound of water\u2019s flow\r\nOver smooth stones down below\r\n\r\nThere is music all day long\r\nLike a never-ending song\r\nIn the rising of the sun\r\nAnd the setting when day\u2019s done\r\nIn the call of birds in flight\r\nAnd the cricket\u2019s song at night\r\n\r\nMusic plays in every season\r\nNature does not need a reason\r\nIn the midst of winter\u2019s storm\r\nOn a sunny summer morn\r\nIn the autumn fields of grain\r\nAnd within a springtime rain\r\n\r\nThis sweet music is a part\r\nOf the rhythm of your heart\r\nLike the waves upon the shore \r\nThere is music evermore\u2026\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when I go outside, I find a place to sit, close my eyes, and just listen.\u00a0 There is a vast soundscape in nature that I find most noticeable when I turn off all my other senses and focus deeply on what I hear.\u00a0 In every moment of the day, in every season, nature sings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,1,6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-hope","category-uncategorized","category-quiet-reflection","category-the-garden"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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