The Maestro

https://www.faithfellowshipweb.com/post/in-tune-with-the-maestro

My response after reading our church’s daily devotional, link noted above.

Pastor Jeff. The maestro.  I read your devotional Monday 2/3/2020 and related so much to it being a musician myself.  The maestro, in the classic sense of a traditional orchestra with his hands and the baton during a performance, brings to life each note played and is the great high priest of harmony. Through his gestures, he blends and augments the humanity and passion of the individual players. Each one is part of a conversation when masterfully blended marvelously form the harmony. He signals the flutes and strings when to be a little softer and tender and summons the brass to be strong and powerful and blends it all to create a breathtaking experience to the audience conveyed through sight and sound. The audience can see the passion and hear the harmony of a well-tuned orchestra with all its human flaws and beauty.  Today we are in an amplified and sadly too digitized world where humanity becomes lost in the pursuit of mathematical perfection. Sometimes perfect harmony is stale and uninspiring A little dissonance within boundaries is a blessing and individual freedom

The modern-day sound engineer is more and more the true maestro behind the curtain. That person behind what used to be a console in a holy place that should not be subject to distractions from others who want to chat. The maestro is a servant to the worship experience and must always immerse themselves in the act. Total focus on the musicians while they add their part to the conversion picking up on every note and delivery of the sound and timbre of that sound, which is the humanity part. While they will seldom admit that even the most accomplished musician is anxious inside during a performance.  Part of that person behind the curtain through their thoughtful actions, lift them and lets their passion come through, without overpowering the others,  guide them fist like the front stage maestro uses his baton in the form of faders and gestures to guide the musicians. To lift this from simply rearranging ones and zeros, this person must be a musician and know what it’s like to be on stage.  God is the ultimate maestro or sound man, and through Jesus, he knows what it’s like to be on that stage because He wonderfully made us with all our humanity. He knows we will miss a note now on then and be slightly off-key, but because of who He is and who we are when we meet, it’s truly beautiful music.

Rick