Song for Today

Did you ever find a song that captured every thing you felt in that moment? Ever find in disbelief that absolutely every new lyric seemed to somehow spring out of your own heart just as much as it did from the artist? Today I found the song that sums up for me the last little bit of my life and walk with God.

Some days are hard, and some not. This one leaned towards the hard side. But still, as I was running this morning, a Sara Groves song came on my iPod that all at once captured the grit and hope that I've been feeling. It wasn't really a new song for me, I've listened to it for years, but today I really understood it and felt that it understood me. It's a song about hope, faith, joy, and perseverance. It's a song about the ways that God can heal your heart. And it meant a lot to me this morning. The song is called "Less Like Scars," and it's by Sara Groves. Here are a couple of quotes from it, in order of how I feel them:

"It’s been a hard year But I'm climbing out of the rubble" "Just a little while ago I couldn't feel the power or the hope I couldn't cope, I couldn't feel a thing Just a little while back I was desperate, broken, laid out Hoping you would come" "And I feel you here And you're picking up the pieces Forever faithful" "And in your hands the pain and hurt look less like scars and more like character" "So every day it's... Less like tearing more like building Less like captive more like willing Less like breakdown more like surrender Less like haunting more like remember" "Less like a prison a prison more like my room it's Less like a casket more like a womb Less like dying more like transcending Less like fear, less like an ending"