Hello friends! It's been such a long time since I've posted with Revive Hope, but Donate Life Month feels like the perfect time to return to the family I hold so dear.
A few months ago a friend sent me the video below. I wanted to post it on my own blog, Chara, but I decided to sit on it. I thought it would be a perfect post for the month of April, and even more fitting for Revive Hope. {Thankfully Ted welcomed me back after a 3 year hiatus}
The song below is arranged by a man named Paul Cardall. You may recognize the song from the TV series Lost. Paul arranged this piece after receiving a life-saving heart transplant. Here's a short excerpt below from Mr. Cardall's YouTube page.
"{Uploaded on Mar 17, 2011 } Most of you know that last year I received a second chance at life after a donor heart was placed in my chest. Ironically, my younger brother passed away while I waited for the transplant surgery. He was unable to donate his organs. (The video contains actual footage from the day mom brought our baby brother home).
Today, beating in my chest is the heart of another young man who like my brother has gone home to the God who gave us life.
The best way I know how to express the raw deep emotions I've experienced is through the piano music I create.
Life and Death was originally written by Michael Giacchino for the show LOST. I fell in love with the piece and it speaks peace to my soul. Together with Steven Sharp Nelson and Marshall McDonald I arranged "Life and Death" for my latest album, New Life."
I've listened to this song more than twenty times since my dear friend sent it to me. I've downloaded the sheet music, and play it numerous times a week. Music is a second language to me. It speaks to my soul. It whispers the grandest stories. It makes me want to dance and it moves me to tears. It is my love language. Without music, I would be lost.
This song, Life & Death, speaks to me. It is so simple, but yet the message it tells, is such a beautiful one. There is an enormous sense of emotion. Love. Pain. Sorrow. Grief. Hope. Joy. Triumph.
I've sobbed while both listening and playing this piece. I can't help but to think of our beautiful friend Kari, or the man she saved. I can't help but to think of how precious this life is. How much I take for granted, and how truly blessed I am. I can't help but to think of the beauty that is in both life and death.
Love and peace to you all!
~Jenn
This song is available on Itunes or where-ever fine music is sold.
http://www.paulcardall.com
