David Crowder On Liturgy

David Crowder enthusiastically describes the wonder of worship or liturgical  music, the most ambiguous of all language, in his delightful book Praise Habit: Finding God in Sunsets and Sushi:

Music is transferable. Sounds and words and thoughts that were someone else’s creation find lodging in your chest. Music speaks of universal things. Common experience. That’s why your lungs swell and your eyes close and you force as much air as possible through your vocal chords whenever you encounter a song that expresses what is your life. (148)