Angels Don't Sing, But Rocks Do!

By GLENN MILLER

The UT Tyler School of Medicine will be the first in northeast Texas, offering aspiring doctors a chance to train and practice without leaving the region, a critical part of addressing the ongoing physician shortage and lack of health care access in the region. Capital projects funded over the next decade, including the new Medical Education Building, will ensure the new medical school has the environment and tools required to draw and retain exceptional medical school faculty and students and enhance biomedical research and core residency programs. The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) granted the School of Medicine its preliminary accreditation, and the first class will enroll in July 2023 and learn at UT Tyler’s north campus until the Medical Education Building opens in 2025.

The UT Tyler School of Medicine has received unprecedented community support from the beginning. Some of the financial support that makes construction of this facility possible includes:

• $80 million from the East

Texas Medical Center Foundation

• A $100 million bond over the next 10 years from the UT Board of Regents

• $10 million from the Robert M. Rogers Foundation to support mental and behavioral health education at the new medical school.

• $4 million from the R.W. Fair Foundation to fully fund the first class of UT Tyler medical students, followed by a $5 million gift for pathways programs and scholarships to cover tuition of the second class.

It was one morning last week during my Men’s Promise Principles groups that my friend Les educated me in that nowhere in scripture do we hear of angels singing. I thought that certainly to be a mistake because I’ve always pictured angels in their heavenly realms singing. Nonetheless, I researched it to prove him wrong but found it to be true. Angels, as recorded in scripture, “say”, “declare”, “announce” but mostly “shout”! They don’t sing! However, this was in context of another paradigm that Les shared; that the earth and all its creation was created to SING. In fact, science has determined that there are sounds of singing (tones) produced in all creation.

Les went on to share that the Earth's natural heartbeat rhythm is the frequency of 7.83 Hz, also known as the “Schumann Resonance". A 7.83 Hz frequency is an alpha/theta brainwave frequency in the human brain. Alpha/Theta brainwave frequency is relaxed, dreamy, sleepy state; that is also when cell regeneration and healing happens.

The psalmist understood this and had ears attuned to hear creation singing. Consider the following from Psalm 98:

GOD’S WORD: Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music; make music to the Lord with the harp, with the harp and the sound of singing, with trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn - shout for joy before the Lord, the King. Let the sea resound, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.

Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy. The next time you’re looking at a sunset or a sunrise, the next time you stand on the shore and watch the waves rolling in, the next time you look from a mountaintop and behold all creation below, stop and listen to creation singing the praises of its creator.

And we, who have been given voices to sing His praise, may do so in harmony with all His creation.