Be Someone Who Burns To Shine

So I have this idea. And it was inspired by something I saw, but it was a really, really beautiful thought. So, I wanted to share it with you:

Music is one of the most beautiful things in the world, if you let it be. Sometimes I like to imagine life as a song, and sometimes I can see myself playing my song in the middle of a street. And that's life, and life is good. To just stand there and play, play, play... What a beautiful thing.

But what if we were to walk into a dome and play our song? What if we were to go into a place, where the acoustics were amazing? Not only that but when you play the lights catch the notes and change with the melodies. Illuminated you play your song, and the music reverberates through you. The sound bounces and echoes and comes to life. While you play the colors change, and everything lights up. Colors collide, and in a swirl of sound, you get so lost. Everything comes together and disappears at the same time, and in that moment you know that everything is going to be okay.

Half of the dome is cut off, and in the auditorium sits all of the people in your life. And they look at you with eyes the color of love, and they sing along. You never have to play alone again, and together you get lost in the place where colors collide, illuminated, playing, playing, playing.

See, we can stand and play in the street, and it can be good. But in the realm of real true life, in the realm of what it really means to live, everything changes. We can stay in the street or accept the invitation for something so much bigger. And I hope, I hope that we answer the call to play our music somewhere loud.

Live, sing loud, and with the music inside of your heart, play, play, play.

- I've reminded before but I'll do it again, "Seize life! Eat bread with gusto, drink wine with a robust heart. Oh yes -- God takes pleasure in your pleasure! Dress festively every morning. Don't skimp on colors and scarves. Relish life with the spouse you love. Each and every day of your precarious life. Each day is God's gift. It's all you get in exchange for the hard work of staying alive. Make the most of each one! Whatever turns up, grab it and do it. And heartily! This is your last and only chance at it." -Ecclesiates 9:7-10 (Message)

- "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." --Jack Kerouac

- "Someday after mastering the wind, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire." -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I love you.