Don't die with your music still inside you!

Author, Wayne Dyer, in his book, “10 Secrets to Inner Peace,” writes that one secret to this inner peace is this: “Don’t die with your music still inside you.” As we know today technology keeps us all from becoming complacent. Especially in the area of entertainment, we find that an entire music collection can be downloaded on an audio digital device slightly thicker than the width of a credit card. We now are living someplace between the 5th and 7th generation of iPods. These portable media players have high capacities for memory, are handheld, resilient to shock if dropped, can withstand vigorous movement, and can hold 20,000 songs, (or more depending on GB capacity) - which means that at 4 minutes per song, one can listen for eight weeks straight without hearing a repeat. I also discovered that the iPod Classic comes in a single monstrous size of 160GB. This iPod has the capacity to hold a whopping 40,000 songs. This should hold your music library for quite some time without you ever having to worry about it getting full. 

God, too, has downloaded our own song of purpose within each of our hearts.  It takes a journey of a lifetime – no matter how long or short that lifetime is – for each of us to discover “our song” and share its melody with all whom we encounter. We, too, 
 have a high capacity for memory, 
 are handheld by our God, 
 can endure vigorous internal and external movements that shake us up so as to not get settled into complacency, 
 and we are programmed to be resilient to shock through supportive prayer, compassionate friends, purposeful pondering and times of quieting.  

So today, we remember and celebrate our being Easter People and that the God of Easter has sung a song of Alleluia Peace for us. Because of an empty tomb, everything is different, everything has changed. Death has no power over the God of life. God’s divine and intimate love is stronger than death. Death is not the end.  

“We all are liberated from death.  Death does not get the last word.  Our survival is guaranteed.  We have nothing to fear.  What the resurrection of Jesus promises is that things can always be new again.  It’s never too late to start over.  Nothing is irrevocable.  No betrayal is final.  No sin is unforgivable.  Every form of death can be overcome. There isn’t any loss that can’t be redeemed; every day is fresh and new.”

In the resurrection we are assured that there are no doors that are eternally closed. Every time we close a door or one is closed on us, God opens another for us.The resurrection assures us that God never gives up on us, even if we give up on ourselves.

So let us as Easter People put in our spiritual earbuds and tune into our personal iPods. May we, like those who have gone before us, listen with the ears of our hearts to the song of purpose that God has downloaded within us. May our lives create harmony, love, laughter, healing, forgiveness, and music of peace for our world.  May we remember today those who need our prayers of support as they struggle with life’s challenges. And may we celebrate all those who have gone before us because they lived their song and did not die with their music still inside them.