something more.

I was recently introduced to the music of a young, female, Christian artist. This morning I was hit by this song and really needed to be... somewhat about silence and longing and yet in those moments God is speaking to us and we shouldn't even begin to think that God has left us.

"Well Sydney says that nothing's just anything
She doesn't like to use the word when she prays
I guess trusting is the hardest part of faith
It's dangerous to hope that things will be OK

Well maybe fog and fear keep our eyes from seeing clear
While i think Sydney could be right, she could be right
But if the stars that shine are in any way a sign
Someone's right here holding us tonight

Well Frederick rarely hears the voice of God
He says that silence is the answer most of all
When the world has explanations for every miracle
How else would we have ears to hear and call

It's not a steady rain, it's more a longing or a pain
It's in the aching that he knows there's something more
Well I have never heard even a single spoken word
except for the rhythm on the ocean floor
like watching dancers through a crack in the door

My Grandpa says commitment is the key to love
50 years of sometimes twilight sometimes dawn
He says there were the years he wasn't sure about
But the love he chose was worth the pressing on
Well I'm a river's flow
Some days I'm fast, some days I'm slow
Well, I think Grandpa could be right, he could be right

Some days I feel the edges
then I'm shallow and pretentious
It all depends on the rain I got that night
Well, I should never base my faith upon my sight
I must decide where I am flowing, decide where I am going

When the silence gets accusing
when I am winning or I'm losing
Does assurance come from choosing to believe?"

My favorite line..."It's in the aching that he knows there's something more." That has been a comfort to me lately... when I am aching for more than the mundaneness of every day, I realize, my God is huge and bigger than this world that He created and one day I will get to live in His glory forever. His Holy Spirit resides in me now so I do get to experience Him every day in so many different ways, but sometimes I just ache for more. Either, I haven't been with Him nearly enough and am missing Him, and being rebellious to His Word, so then I ache for reconcilliation. Sometimes, though, I do feel so near to Him, but even when I get so near, I can't see Him face to face and I long for that. I long for the majestic encounter that we will experience one day in Heaven.


"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."-C.S. Lewis


"20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
21 who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself." - Philippians 3:20-21