Joy to the WorldJoy to the World is one of my favorite Advent/Christmas hymns. As a young boy I can remember walking home or to the car with my father whistling this hymn after a church service. Maybe that is, in part, why this is favorite of mine. Maybe it is also tied in with the ways in which it calls forth the natural world to (or rather reminds us humans that the natural world is also) praising forth God.
Joy to the world! the Lord is come:
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare him room,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven, and nature sing.
So imagine my interest when I found out that mice sing. Yes, that's right, sing. When we had a family gathering recently, my wife's cousin Andy's wife (got that?) is doing research on language development in the brain. Her research is using mice, and their ultrasonic songs (two males competing for a female's attention, babies singing for their mother, or when turned over onto their backs, etc.). Fascinating. The Huffington Post has an article regarding this, plus video of a mouse singing.
Maybe we'll find that there really is music of the spheres.
Blessed Be
Joel
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