A Smattering of Thought

Two lost souls who finally find each other, stare longing into their each other's eyes, the gentle caress, the whispered words of affection and the quickening of the heartbeat. This is usually associated with the swelling of the music, a tightening of the camera angle and the perfectly timed kiss as the snow lightly falls around them.  The stuff Hallmark movies are made of.  The stuff little girls often dream of. The type of love that oversells and under delivers. Our general misconception of love leads little girls to become hardened and at times are taken advantage of as their ideals are dashed and they begin to look around for “ok” or “better than nothing”. This is not what love is supposed to be like at all.  Movies sometimes can get it right but most of the time they strive to sell something that doesn’t actually exist.   Love is not the fairy tale we envision in movies or books. Love is not the pitter-patter of our hearts. Love is hard. ...

Music is healing oil for my soul.   It sets my course straight after getting turned around.   It seeks to draw me out of dark places.   Is like a perfect storm of powerful notes and truthful lyrics crashing against my weary soul.   My hearts resonates with the Psalmist David in this way.  I can almost picture him lost in his own world singing songs of deepest hurt or greatest joys.  Singing praises to God at times with no lyrics just the beat of his heart.  The well of emotion at the words which cannot be formed as he is hit with the realization of Who God really is what He has really done.  This realization is even more powerful for us on the other side of the cross.   One song which resonates within my soul right now is "How Love Wins" from The Story CD project.   This song tells the story of the thief on the cross next to Jesus.   How Love Wins:  lyrics by Nichole Nordeman, music by Bernie Herms "My life...