When I was little I used to sit in the back seat of my mom's Astro Van*woop* and sing made up songs to Jesus. I'd sing about the stars and how pretty they were, I would sing every night on the way home from church. (I remember this distinctly, if you don't believe me ask my momma)
So while I'm in the laundry room, sitting on a table, I come across this scripture.
Isaiah 55:12"You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace;the mountains and hills will burst into song before you,and all the trees of the field will clap their hands."
And I start to sing, you know the song that we sang in church since we've been kids...Yeah, that one! So in the laundry room on Friday night, I began to praise Jesus.
Then I sat to read again*by this time my clothes are in the dryer* and I started singing a random made up song.
I was amazed...
But since I have been 13 or 14 I stopped singing or even writing songs. For months now I've been praying that I would be able to start that again. But nothing...Imagine my surprise in the laundry room when words just began to flow out of my mouth.
FYI- Jeffrey is very much convinced that I need to sing-or do something with worship,I'm praying about that too. But I thought, wow God- really, in the laundry room?
But then I remember that the whole premise of that verse, is that if we don't praise Him the rocks will cry out. So maybe I'll be like Annie Hawks and write songs while I do housework. Don't know who she is? She wrote one of my most favorite Hymns...
"I need thee every hour, most gracious Lord;no tender voice like Thine can Peace afford.
I need Thee, oh I need Thee, every hour I need Thee Oh Bless me now my Savior; I come to Thee."
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