Recently a 35,000-year-old flute was discovered in western Germany.  The meticulously carved flute was found near fragments of other musical instruments and a female figurine proving music flourished even in the earliest days of human history.You have no idea how happy this makes me.  While I never doubted that people have always made music - lifting voices in song, clapping hands and stomping feet – to see that even from our earliest days we took the time out of our busy schedules of hunting, gathering, and running from saber-toothed tigers to make musical instruments, carve sculpture and paint the walls delights me and gives me reason for eternal optimism.Music has always been a part of my - life from childhood songs to music lessons (violin, piano and voice) to the Boardman Orchestra to musical theater to dance classes.  My Sermons and Podcasts often include songs and music accompanies me thought my day.  Rarely a day goes my without song and I cannot imagine a world without music a...