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Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets
of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time.
Monsignor Ronald A. Knox
"When you have a
lot of people singing without any organ accompaniment, there is a constant
tendency for the note to drop all the time; it gets lower and lower as it goes
on. And therefore, when the choir isn't accustomed to singing without
accompaniment, every now and then the choirmaster, who has a pitch-pipe
concealed on his person, gives a little 'toot' in the background, to remind
them of the higher note which they ought to be taking and aren't.
And, you see, we
are rather like that We go on living from day to day without thinking much
about how we are living, or what we are here for, or whether the things that
chiefly interest us are really worth living for; and we get accustomed to our
sins, and feel vaguely that it is a pity we go on committing them, but after
all, there doesn't seem to be much chance of our stopping; and our prayers get
very languid and washed out, and we think of very little except our food and
our amusements - do you see what I mean? All the time, the note on which our
lives are lived is dropping dropping, till it's ready to die away into our
boots, and we don't notice, just as the choir doesn't notice when the note
drops. So we want that sudden little 'toot' of the pitch- pipe, to pull us
together and screw the note of our lives up again. And the pitch-pipe we use
... is meditation on Our Lord's Passion.”
(From A Retreat for Lay People)
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