Sadness


Are we "sick" when we are sad? Allow me to rephrase that: Is there ever a time when sadness is not being produced by the human spirit? Actually I'm trying to justify the times I become aware of my sadness. Over the years, I have worked through a truckload of pent up emotions. I like to think I stay relatively current on my emotional experiencing. And I am attempting to give you permission to experience sadness, as oft as you do, without being ashamed of the afore mentioned experience.

Fact is, we are in a constant state of grief just because of our being human. Just as the creation groans waiting for its deliverance, so we grieve. It is even from the midst of this grief that the Spirit performs a blessed ministry on our behalf—translating these intense groanings which lie deeply within us, into intercessions representing our need, before the throne of God.

Kenny G's music, especially the prolonged tones, pull out my sadness. It's as if there's a rope of sadness through the middle of me, and these tones grab hold and pull. This is coupled with the highs, lows, and plateaus, of the music, all working in concert, enabling be to take the wings of the music, experience an exhilarating liberty, and gently glide through/beyond the sadness into a peaceful emptiness. This emptiness anchors me to the true meaning of life—only the Bread of Heaven satisfies.

The soft tones finish off this peace offering by communicating to me the gentle message: It's okay. It'll be okay.

I am left quietly energized.