The Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins was looking for a place to practice the saxophone when he lived in New York City in the late 1950's. It's a loud instrument for an apartment dwelling, so he took a walk and "came to this big expanse", a pedestrian overpass on The Williamsburg Bridge.
He went to the bridge to practice his saxophone, playing against the sky"just about everyday for two years." He was happiest up there on the bridge walkway and could have just stayed up there forever improving his volume and his wind capacity. But Rollins said: "You can't be in heaven and on earth at the same time."
Without a saxophone, the closest mere mortals come to that heavenly state is being in love.
Can you hear heaven as well as feel it?
The Bible says it sounds like this (Revelation 14:2):
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And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps.
Thank you Sonny Rollins for letting us hear that thunder in the song above.
