A Symphony

Music has tremendous power. It can discourage, uplift, quiet, awaken, arouse, enthuse, and empower. My life could probably be described by my playlist. It wouldn't take long to figure out what I'm struggling with...what I love...or what I want. Simply look at my music...because it is the outpouring of my heart.

There are times when I hear a song, and I am transported to a time in my life when that song became significant to me. The other day, I heard a song that nearly brought me to my knees in a mix of overwhelming emotions.

I was listening to some girls around me sing. Suddenly I heard one of them quietly singing "He is Exalted" in Portuguese. Instantly I was transported to when I was sixteen and listening to a Twila Paris CD in my room. I remembered being fascinated with her recording of the song in Portuguese. I played it over and over until I had it memorized. I remembered wondering where God would one day send me...I remembered that every time we would sing the English version at church, I would quietly sing the Portuguese....just because. Because part of me knew I craved and longed for a world I'd never seen and a life I had never lived.

As I listened to her sing the words barely above a whisper...I sat in literal amazement. Who would have ever known that one day over ten years later, I'd be sitting on a bus with my Portuguese church listening to a 12 year-old girl sing that song?

What an amazing reminder to me of the incredible and overwhelming goodness of my God. Who is like Him? Who can plant desires that make no sense to a 16 year-old...yet one day begin to blossom into a beautiful part of a plan so complex that it could never have been scripted by any other? Who is like my God? Overwhelming in love, satisfying desires in His perfect time...desires that seemed elusive and impossible.

As I sat trying to remain composed, I wondered what the song would be ten years from now...I wondered how all these even more intense and complex desires will come together with God's plan. I know it's going to absolutely amaze me. I know I'll look back and sit in awe. I'll wonder how He did it once again...and I'll praise my God once more for doing what I never thought possible...

"Your love is a symphony all around me, running through me. Your love is a melody, underneath me, running to me. Your love is a song..."