Today’s Celtic Lent thought was focussing on music.

It seems that as the Celtic monks travelled from place to place it is thought that they sung or chanted the psalms. Cole writes: ‘It was, perhaps, a natural extension for the Celtic monks from this external practice that their inner journey, another life journey, would also have been filled with the sound of psalms and spiritual songs. Or perhaps it was the other way around – perhaps the external expression was the natural result of the internal process of filling their inner life journey with spiritual songs of praise.The journey itself was filled with praise: the external journey as well as the internal one’.

We live in an age where many of us are plugged into music continually. I notice throughout the dat that I often have a tune reverberating around my head. I often wonder where that tune has come from and whether it is an indication of the soundtrack for my personal journey.

Today’s thought has left me with many questions such as ….
Is there a theme tune for my life?
If so, where has that come from?
If there isn’t why not?
Does the tune in my head reflect what’s in my heart?
Is my tune an indication of where I am with my Creator?
When I catch myself in the moment, what is singing from my soul?
Does the tune from outside of my life have an influence on me?
Where is God in the music?

It’s been really great stuff to think on today.