The Gift of Music

I have followed the story of Alma Deutscher for a while now.
She is only twenty years old, yet her body of work reads like someone who has lived a lifetime with music.
She wrote her first opera when she was seven.
Her first violin concerto at nine.
Her first full-length opera at ten.
People call her a prodigy, but even that word feels too small for what she carries.

What draws me in most is how she talks about music.
She says melodies already exist in the air.
Her job is not to invent them.
Her job is to discover what is already there.
As if she is tuning her heart to something placed in the world long before she arrived.

And when you watch her create, you can see the difference.
Most of us learn music through repetition.
Wrong notes.
Slow progress.
Hours spent asking our hands to do what our minds imagine.
But some people touch a gift that was waiting for them from the very beginning.
Alma is one of them.
Her compositions feel like an old soul remembering something time tried to forget.

It made me think back on my own beginning with the piano.
I was not uncovering symphonies.
I was stumbling through chords.
But something in me felt drawn to the sound.
Like music was a language God wanted me to learn one note at a time.

Alma reminded me that music is not just human talent or creativity.
It is divine generosity.
A gift placed in the world so our souls would have a way to speak when words fall short.

And this season has a way of bringing that gift forward again.
We hear songs we have carried since childhood.
We listen to new voices adding beauty to old truths.
And hope seems a little closer.

Alma’s brilliance does not diminish the rest of us.
It simply reveals how deep the gift of music truly goes.
Some uncover it in breathtaking ways.
Most of us uncover it slowly.
But the source is the same.

God placed music here as a reminder.
A gift from creation that hints of heaven.
A sound that points me toward home.

Her story helped me hear that again.

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