Jan. 8, 2008 - The medium of music

I have begun to notice how much music affects my children-and how useful of a tool it is to teach!  i have always known music, it was a part of me growing up, especially in my middle school and high school years.  i played clarinet for 7 years.  i loved it so much.  I still do-and i am finding that it is such a part of me that a day does not go by where we don't sing or hum or listen to some music.  life seems dull adn incomplete without it!  Right now, i have on itzhak perlman's greatest hits, pepe romero, and clarinet solos/ensembles...all scrambled.  i love having it on and it amazes me how much peace it brings to the house! 

I also sing to the kids efore bed at night .  We sing teh same songs, in teh same order every night...and some nights I sing other songs.  WEll, it just so happens that the only songs i can ever really remember and sing without help are hymns and praise songs.  So, i sing those...all that i can remember-and from the hymnal.  Tehy love it.  i have found that Danny loves to sing...he will remember songs pretty well-they all remember them better than i think they do.  he seems drawn to songs wth the word "rejoice" in them.  his favorite sogn foro a while was "this is the day" and "rejoice in the lord always" and for christmas it was 'o come immanuel"...lately it has been 'the rock song' (i will call upon the lord).  The oters have sons they request...and there are many tat are played on te radio-and sung at churc, which they will tell everyone "that's one that mom sings!!!) 

well, andrew (1yo) loves to dance!  he will dance to itzhak perlman's violin...it is so funny!  we went to some peoples' house for a new years party.  near teh end of te evening, they played some music...and andrew amused us with some swaying and bobbing-to "god of concrete, god of steel" and "marvelous grace".  it was wonderful!  I think it was then tat I realized how great a medium music iis to teach them scripture.  So, tat is one thing i will be implementing more of this year-music to teac scripture.  I am tryign to focus on songs that are already in psalms-like "i iwll call upon teh Lord" (psalm 18:3, 46-48), 'as teh deer panteth" psalm 42:1, ETC. 

Anwyay, that is it for ow.  i hope i haven't already told about that. 

h :)