Revisiting the Silent Music!?

So, I'm contemplating yesterday's post - particularly the part where the pastor mentioned, "all that is not music is silence".  At least that's what I wrote down in my notes - with NO commentary.  This must have been the part of the sermon where Dan & I were whispering back and forth about others points of the message.

Melanie & I are trying to figure out what in the world this could mean.  A google (or swagbucks) search leads one to an alternative rock album by some group called "The Sleep Design"!  Somehow this pastor did NOT seem a big alternative (or any kind of) rock music fan??!! 













So, that's probably not what he was referring to. 

I am SO over my head on this one!!  Perhaps I should just let this go ... but here's my one futile attempt at reconciling this statement:

George MacDonald, Scottish author and minister (1824-1905), is quoted as having said, "All that is not music is silence."  But what did HE mean?  
The quote is found in his Unspoken Sermons:














I found the excerpt at this website, and MacDonald is discussing a father (compared to a Heavenly Father)'s love for his son (Son).  Even in Jesus' death on the cross, perhaps Jesus felt His Father's love and comfort after He had fulfilled his purpose to take our sin and enter into our hell in our place - and then He may have had again felt His Father's love and the accompanying rest... no noise ... silence.  Heaven?  Silence, the music of peace?? 

Here's the quote:

"Nor shall we ever know that repose in the Father’s hands, that rest of the Holy Sepulchre, which the Lord knew when the agony of death was over, when the storm of the world died away behind his retiring spirit, and he entered the regions where there is only life, and therefore all that is not music is silence, (for all noise comes of the conflict of Life and Death)—we shall never be able, I say, to rest in the bosom of the Father, till the fatherhood is fully revealed to us in the love of the brothers."

My theory:
Life is full of trouble (noisy music, disturbing our relationships) - but a good marriage is full of silence (peace, harmony, unity in our relationships).  Don't know if that is the intention of this quote by any means.  The harmony of relationships is maintained by LOVE - a safe haven from the world and its noise.  

Another MacDonald quote from Unspoken Sermons:

"But if the Father loves the Son, if the very music that makes the harmony of life lies, not in the theory of love in the heart of the Father, but in the fact of it, in the burning love in the hearts of Father and Son, then glory be to the Father and to the Son, and to the spirit of both, the fatherhood of the Father meeting and blending with the sonhood of the Son, and drawing us up into the glory of their joy, to share in the thoughts of love that pass between them, in their thoughts of delight and rest in each other, in their thoughts of joy in all the little ones."