The Music of Tension

I've had the idea for this post or a while now but just last week I was rereading "Sex God" by Rob Bell and ran into this statement: "...we were created to live in the tension. And when you lose the tension, you lose something central to what it means to be human..." (Bell 61).

Of course, in the context of Bell's book he is talking about sexuality. He is talking about "Angels and Animals." Angels don't have a sexuality like God created us with, and an animal's sexuality is purely instinctive. We cannot err to either side. We must live in the tension: not denying our sexuality (pretending to be angels) nor simply acting out all of our sexual instincts (acting like animals). We live in the tension between these two.

The reason I've been thinking about this "tension" idea for a while is because without tension there is no such thing as music. Music requires tension... both literally and often

figuratively as well. Without tension the strings of the instrument (guitar, piano, violin, etc.) would produce no tone, without tension the drum head would make no noise, without tension the vocal chords would produce no sound. Music requires tension.

It is often only through tension that beauty is created. JRR Tolkien's creation myth "Ainulindale" (from The Silmarillion) is the perfect example of this, but I won't get into that.

I think this ties in very nicely with last week's post. Is it possible that through the tension of our denominational differences the Kingdom of God is actually enhanced?
Is there something beautiful that is created out of this tension?
What other areas of life require tension or are enhanced through tension?
What do you think?