Tune My Heart

"Come,Thou Fount of every blessing, Tune my heart to sing Thy grace..."

I cannot help but sing this hymn with my violin brain turned on. I am constantly tuning notes to make a perfect unison or a perfect harmony. A note that is even slightly out-of-tune sounds terrible. The violin gets its bad reputation for a reason.

Do I take just as much care in letting God tune my heart to match His? Do I take quiet time each day, listening to His note, to His voice? Or am I too busy telling Him what I want? Do I make so much of my own noise that I don't hear Him?

Then I think of what happens when my heart is tuned. Ever see one of those silly cartoons in which the lady sings a high note and the window breaks? Yeah, that's sympathetic vibrations. I love physics terms. If I play an A, anything else pitched as an A in the room will vibrate.

We violinists depend on this. We have an open A string. If I play an A in tune anywhere else on my violin, the A string will also ring. That extra ring tells me I'm in tune.

When my heart is tuned to God's heart, anything that moves God's heart should move mine, too. Just keep listening to Him...