A musician named John Buttrick writes: "Rivers run no higher than their sources. Our sources need cultivation, development, and freshening. We need to spend time with the big ideas of the world."
He continues: "We cannot put ourselves, like many musicians, on 'automatic pilot': press the buttons, get the correct 'mode,' and just grind out the ensuing effects. To do that is to be at great variance with the primal musical love that led us to seek active involvement with music in our lives.""Performing Beethoven: II, Healing the Wound," Fanfare, May/June 1983, pp. 59-62.
The observation has an application to Christian Science and Christian Scientists, as well as to music and musicians. We need to take time to get closer to the great spiritual ideas of Christian Science, so that we too are renewed.
