At work yesterday I listened to Beethoven’s Third Symphony–the Eroica. It had been some time since I had listened to it, but whenever I do I am reminded of something I wrote early on after Anna died. This came at a time when we were struggling with, and affirming, the sovereignty of God and the goodness of God. It is still a struggle, and it is still an affirmation.
Take a moment and read Beethoven, Schoenberg, Cage and the Sovereignty of God.
Anna Resurget 
Thank you for this fine parallel. We were listening to a late Beethoven string quartet yesterday, one which has a movement called Hymn of Thanksgiving for Recovery in the Lydian Mode (or something like that)…this one always makes me think that Beethoven was truly in contact with a higher order, and that one manifestation of that order was transcendent beauty.