{"id":1777,"date":"2011-01-26T09:43:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T14:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2013-05-31T18:38:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T02:38:25","slug":"beautiful-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/beautiful-sounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"RedeemingGod image 1778\" href=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/beautiful-sounds\/sound_wave\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1778\" title=\"sound_wave\" src=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/sound_wave-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/sound_wave-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/sound_wave-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/sound_wave.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Life is full of beautiful sounds. Children laughing. Birds chirping. The crash of ocean waves on the shore. Snow falling in the forest (yes, it has a distinct sound).<\/p>\n<p>And my current personal favorite, the tick&#8230; tick&#8230; tick.. tick. tickticktickticktick. tick. tick.. tick&#8230; tick&#8230; tick of hot water pipes in the wall at 3:17 AM. Although I used to find that sound incredibly annoying, especially when it woke me from my peaceful slumber, it was the most beautiful sound in the world last night.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because it meant we had heat in the house again.<\/p>\n<p>During the cold snap the last few days, our heating pipes froze and we were without heat. So I spent a dozen hours or so over the past couple days using hair dryers, pulling back carpet, moving furniture, climbing around in freezing crawl spaces, and other assorted methods, all in an attempt to locate the frozen pipe and get the heat going again. Also, I was dreading that when it did start flowing, I might end up with a burst pipe.<\/p>\n<p>And then, last night, at about 10:30 PM, while I was on the phone with a friend from Oregon, my wife ran in excitedly and said, &#8220;The walls are ticking! I heard the walls ticking!&#8221; We both ran to the wall and listened to the beautiful noise of the copper pipes heating up inside the wall. Last week, it was the most annoying sound in the world. Last night it was the most beautiful sound. And at 3:17 AM, I didn&#8217;t even mind being woken up it.<\/p>\n<p>Funny how perspective changes everything&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Take curse words and coarse jokes, pointed questions\u00a0about the\u00a0accuracy of Scripture or the deity of Jesus, or even mindless chatter about Jersey Shore and sports statistics.<\/p>\n<p>All these things used to annoy me. But now, just like the ticking pipes in my wall, they are beautiful sounds, because they\u00a0tell me I&#8217;m hanging out with the right people, the kind of people Jesus hung out with&#8230; the people whom God loves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is full of beautiful sounds. Children laughing. Birds chirping. The crash of ocean waves on the shore. Snow falling in the forest (yes, it has a distinct sound). And my current personal favorite, the tick&#8230; tick&#8230; tick.. tick. tickticktickticktick. tick. tick.. tick&#8230; tick&#8230; tick of hot water pipes in the wall at 3:17 AM. 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