When I was 60 I wrote a book called Meeting Christ in the Joys and Sufferings of Aging. I thought it would be hard to find joys but asking around I came up with lots. Senior discounts rated high. One of them I never thought of was that because we are less busy, even though busier than we thought we’d be, we have more time for musing. Something in the present, triggers some delicious memory of the past, and now we have time to savor it.

Reading Jeff Ostrowski’s blog about piano vs. organ triggered this fantastic memory. I was around 12 years old strolling along Riverside Drive in NYC when, even though I was brought up atheist, I suddenly got this impulse to walk into Riverside Church. I had never been inside a Church. It was during the week. No one was inside this grand edifice but cascading down from the choir loft was Bach’s Toccata and Fugue! I was transfixed not only by the beauty but by the power of it. I think it was the very first time God reached out to me through beauty, and perhaps paved the way for another graced moment when a college boyfriend, a non-practicing Episcopalian, played Bach’s Wachet Auf on a tiny tape recorder. Mind you, I didn’t have the faintest idea who Jesus even was, but the music carried Him to me.

After you read this, take a little trip “down memory lane” to when the BEAUTY of Christ came into you for the first time.

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