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<\/a> It was a sound<\/strong>, a droning sound unlike anything he had heard. God met him, revealed Himself to Coltrane through a resonance. \u201cIt was so beautiful,\u201d he told his wife as he hopelessly tried to reproduce it on a piano. That is the key to Coltrane. <\/p>\n

\u201cWith this event, the search for the mysterious sound began. It was a search that would continue throughout his life and would cause him to create some of his most intense and emotional music.\u201d writes Fraim.<\/p>\n

After this experience he still played solo\u2019s with amazing speed but they were not frenzied rather they were searches for ultimate meaning. When he picked up his sax and played, he was trying to reproduce the sound of God. Sometimes he would solo for thirty minutes<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

The question is what was he doing? He was searching for that sound of God that was playing at his lowest and yet most transformational moment of life. That magnificent murmur, that melody that met him when he was at his weakest and yet somehow was becoming his strongest. He was searching for the sound of God not to play to him, but to have it played by him and through him as a witness to his audiences.<\/p>\n

When you listen to his music you either love it or hate it but remember the meaning is not found in what he was playing but in why he was playing the way he was playing.<\/u><\/p>\n

Our lives will be meaningless to those around us until we are willing to tell them the story that reveals our search for God. Others will always baffle us until we are willing to pursue the meaning behind their music.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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