Buy a piano and restore music to your home. "Music is the food of love."
Okay, I am continuing to delve into The Restoration of Christian Culture by John Senior, so those who have read it already may want to stay away from here for a couple weeks as I report on my reading and add my own two cents...
At Bethany we are great believers in homegrown music (we haven't and probably won't throw out the stereo...at least yet.) I think C.S. Lewis one time said something about our life in eternity, whether it be in Heaven or Hell will be simply a continuation of our life on earth. In this vein, one of my thoughts (I am sure its not original) is that if we don't practice on earth what we will be doing in Heaven, then we won't get there. (We can't just listen to or watch others do it.) Primarily, in Heaven we will love and accept love. But another thing we will be doing is singing. Thus we must sing here as a warm-up you might say.
This past summer the kids checked out a book from the library called "The Fireside Book of Folk Songs". They renewed it several times. All summer we were learning and singing a variety of songs as a family. It was fun for everyone and brought us closer together. For Christmas, two of the few gifts Mrs. Curley and I actually bought for the family was a second hand copy of this book and its companion, "The Fireside Book of American Folk Songs". Both have proved to be great investments so far. We have had great fun singing some of the old-time spirituals and taking parts. Now while I don't recommend some of these old-time spirituals for the Liturgy, by themselves they can be great songs.
There is something deeply spritual about singing and singing together that draws people together and grows the love and harmony among those. Whatever strife the family may be struggling through, a good sing-along together inevitiably restores joy and peace to Bethany.
From Bethany, the small holding in Bethune...Oremus pro invicem!
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