“In Deepest Grief”

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 {Collage & Music} 

Imagine the home of the composer, Johann Sebastian Bach. A house full of instruments and musical sounds always near to the ear. 

Bach lived from 1685 to 1750. 

But his life was a life of grief. He had lost a brother and a sister in his early childhood and then both his parents as a young boy, when he was 9 and 10. Then in his own adulthood, as well as losing his first wife, Maria, he also lost 11 of his 20 children within his own lifetime. 

Close your eyes and listen to some of his music here and connect to his grief. 

("In Deepest Grief" JS Bach BWV244 last movement from St. Mathew Passion is used by kind permission of VBertsis on You Tube). 

When I reflect on Bach’s incredibly yet sad life, I remember … People have been dying all the time.