Bloop Happens

This is Bloop!

This is what Bloop sounds like!

According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Bloop is a sound.  It is an ultra-low frequency and extremely powerful sound.  Scientists say that it occurs underwater.   They believe that the noise once originated at 50⁰ S 100⁰ W which would place the sound in the ocean south and west of the tip of South America.  Oceanographers say that the sound could be heard from over 3,000 miles away.  The sound was only recorded once in 1997.  The source of the sound remains unknown.

"Heard from over 3,000 miles away"? 

"The source is unknown"? 

Dudes, I've been hearing Bloop many times a day for 31 years!  I started hearing it in the '80's.  My son, Jesse, is making those sounds!  He has autism.  Up here on land, it is a high pitched "aaahhhhHHHH!".   Silly scientists, the sound has been garbled because you are listening to it underwater! 

The sounds of autism and other disabilities are the Bloop of our lives.  Even if you're not associated with disabled people, I'm sure you have heard the short, powerful sound bursts at your local Target or Toys-R-Us.   You stop what you are doing to see the emergency.  You look for who is in distress.  It may be a meltdown or, in fact, you may be looking at extreme delight.  The sounds of Bloop can fool you.  More often than not, what you turn to see is a very happy, excited person with their very courageous mom or dad.  They have set sail into an ocean of stimuli.   That is the sound of Bloop.

These sounds are also present during our "Worship For All" chapel services.  God loves Bloop!  Yes, Bloop is distracting.  However, these pings, dongs, yelps, groans and grunts are some of the sounds of our worship adventure.  Bloop was not really first heard in 1997.  It was first recorded thousands of years ago.  In the Bible, Psalm 100 describes Bloop as a joyful noise made by the Earth and all who inhabit the Earth:

Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all you Earth. 
Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

Know that the LORD is God:
it is he that has made us, and not we ourselves;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise:
be thankful to him, and bless his name.

For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting;
and his truth endures to all generations.

(based on the American King James Version)



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