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When I heard Jackie Evancho sing "Pie Jesu," what I heard I would not hesitate to describe as "divine and heavenly."

Once I was listening to a piece of classical music. It may have been played by atheists, for all I know. I had the thought, "This music is eternal." Later I came to know that what I heard was Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring."

Once, at a Celtic Spirituality conference, I heard Theresa Schroeder-Sheker speak and then play her harp. Both her speaking and music were "divine and heavenly." She was, without a doubt in my mind, an inspired person, a person infused with divine and heavenly things. Unearthly.

Is it heresy to term something "divine and heavenly" other than from the Bible? Yes, it elevates the thing described. Have you not ever wondered at some moments, "Where did that come from?! I surely have not the capacity to write or speak such a thing. God must have been involved." The term elevates God, not the medium through which he is expressed. It is nothing less than his mercy that we may experience divine and heavenly expressions of the Creator through his creatures. He is there, in us!