Keep Singing

I was thinking about singing. It's hard to be a good singer. I mean there are some really good ones, and then there are some people who need a little more polishing on their vocal stylings. You've seen American Idol, right?

But have you ever seen concert footage where the entire crowd knows the words and they are singing along to some anthemic tune? I'm sure there are widely varying talent levels in those crowds when it comes to singing, but the resulting swell of the voices sounds pretty darn good. It's like the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. What the mob can do together is far better than what they could do individually.

It says something about the merit of getting lost in something greater than ourselves - in a collective consciousness, a relationship with God and others that is greater than who we can be on our own.