So you think you’re busy?

Consider J.S. Bach, who:

…was charged with overseeing the music in four Leipzig churches.

J.S. Bach - one busy man

He was married twice, a widow once and had 20 children.

He taught music lessons and Latin classes.

He rehearsed and performed his own organ works and directed the local boys choirs.

Yet the Bach-Gesellschaft company has published 65 volumes of music, even though experts believe at least half of Bach’s works are missing.

This apparently did not deter Bach from a prayer life:

Many scholars have asked: When did Bach find time to compose? But (Patrick) Kavanaugh is fascinated by another question: When did Bach find time to pray? Both questions may have the same answer.

“Perhaps all of these symbolic numbers and patterns were something Bach did as a kind of meditation,” said Kavanaugh. “This may have been his own personal way of worshipping God. … And in the end, it didn’t matter if anyone else figured it all out. He was writing his music for a different audience. This was between him and the Lord.”

This interview with Patrick Kavanaugh by Terry Mattingly posted here.

(HT:  colleague Bob Stein with CICO)