Staying in Tune

You are sick and ask for prayer. People respond, “We’re think­ing about you.” Or, “We’re send­ing vibes your way.” We have already talked about the bib­li­cal per­spec­tive of thought in two pre­vi­ous blogs. But what about vibes? Is this just an expres­sion of New Age phi­los­o­phy? Or do vibes have the power to bring you off your sickbed?

The most accu­rate answer is, “I don’t know.” No one knows. It has not been sci­en­tif­i­cally proven, though those who prac­tice energy med­i­cine believe that there is a vibra­tional flow in the uni­verse to which we can con­nect and then trans­mit remotely or by touch.  The foun­da­tion is, how­ever, meta­phys­i­cal.

At a sym­phony per­for­mance, the oboe sounds the “A” to which every sec­tion of the orches­tra tunes. The note is played at a per­fect 440 vibra­tions per sec­ond. When each instru­ment achieves that per­fec­tion, the whole orches­tra plays in har­mony.  But now we are talk­ing physics.

In 1963, mete­o­rol­o­gist Edward Lorenz devised the the­ory that a but­ter­fly could flap its wings in Brazil and even­tu­ally cause a tor­nado in Texas,  He was con­sid­ered a buf­foon until it was under­stood that his point was there is no such thing as an unevent­ful moment. Even the vibra­tions of a butterfly’s gos­samer wings have major con­se­quences. Author and moti­va­tional speaker Andy Andrews expounded Lorenz’ train of thought in his book The Butterfly Effect. It is Andrews’ firm belief that we live today with the deriv­a­tives of actions set in motion cen­turies ago.

The ancient philo­soph­i­cal con­cept of The Music (rhythm, vibra­tions) of the Spheres sug­gests a harmonious/mathematical order to the uni­verse. Mickey Rooney echoes the thought in his impromptu solil­o­quy on rhythm in Strike Up the Band, the 1940 movie he made with Judy Garland.

Maybe there is some­thing to send­ing vibes, but for me to send or to receive them, I am look­ing for some­thing more in tune with the God’s power. I like how WIM mis­sion­ary Patty Schmid writes her mes­sage from the Father in her book Sweetness and Light:

“You, Sweetness, have a spe­cial place in My heart.  Let your heart beat in Mine. Be still child, if I told you to be here to feel the rhythm of My heart, you can be assured that you will…Hear the rhythm around you…My heart beats with a spe­cial rhythm, but remem­ber My heart when­ever you hear or see rhythm around you. Let it be a reminder of how My heart beats in yours, in your body, soul and spirit…My rhythm is all around you, in every movement…The rhythms of heaven are beau­ti­ful, with per­fect har­mony, but the rhythms of earth reflect them.”