Chords of Life

Life and music seem to have a lot in common.

Depending on the chords you play you can make your song (life) depressing, happy, encouraging, emotional, party-ish, sad, fun, mellow, and so on and so forth. We can all play in different keys, some in the key of G, some the key of A, and so on and so forth. But some of us just seem to harmonize with each other. Just as B can harmonize with G. These two notes just sound good with each other. But G and A just don't sound that great played next to each other.

But even if these notes / chords don't work well with each other this can be fixed. If I wanted to play a G chord and then play an A I can change keys. The key of G is three major chords, and one minor chord. G, C, D, and Em; the key of A is A, D, E and F#m.

So how do you make the key of G work with the key of A. They don't harmonize with each other. They don't sound good with each other. It is actually rather simple, and it works with every musical key.

You find the chords that are common in the two keys. This would be the D chord in both of them. I can play G, C, D, and hold D out a little longer, and then play A, or E, and switch to the key of A. This way I can transition easily from the key of G to the key of A without any conflicts. They won't sound bad, and you have just brought the key of G, and A into harmony with each other.

So how does this have anything to do with life?

People are the same way. Sometimes we don't harmonize with each other. Sometimes we don't have much in common. But when we have the common ground of Christ we can be in the same song without conflicting. When we don't focus on all the differences we have, and we simply focus on our common ground in Christ, we can all live in the same song without making a big conflict. But if we keep looking at those chords in others that we don't like. If we see that we aren't in the same key, and we don't focus on that common ground in Christ. We will not blend with each other, and we will risk tearing apart the body of Christ.

If I play a song, and try to play a G chord and then try playing a chord not in its key its not going sound right, and I won't have a song, but just some noise. But if I take the common chord, and change keys then the song can continue without sounding out of place.

In life we cannot look at all the things about others that bother us, but should remember that our common ground in Christ. We all will have differences and we will have chords in our key that will bother others, and others will have chords that bother us. But we will all have a common Chord and that is Christ.

It is interesting, but the first musical key is the Tonic key. It is the key most commonly called C. This key is a special key as it is the only key with no sharp notes, or flat notes. This means that all the notes in the key are major notes. A sharp is half way from being a perfectly tuned note (being too high), a flat is the same (Being too low). The key of C is the most commonly used in music.

Let Christ be the same in your life. Let Him be your common grounds that affects the music of your life.