Thursday, June 12, 2008

How can I keep from singing?

Amidst the heightened struggles that we have had lately, there has been a constant reminder that our trials are in perspective. Throughout his life, Dawson has never gone more than a few hours in a day without singing. This music-making has never been far away for him, and as a result, the bad times can never last long.
Lately, he has been seemingly singing more than normal. It's been amazing seeing how even after a few days into the week, he'll suddenly be singing and remembering a new song that he learned in church on Sunday. The memory is astounding. It's as though he has a photographic memory in a musical sense.
And the way he sings from the heart! We are always encouraged when he'll be singing "Show Your power oh Lord our God. Show your Power oh Lord, our God," in his very broken pronunciation. It's as though he believes absolutely every word that he is singing (we could all learn something from that when we worship).
And the pitch! I don't know many kids that can sing with such near perfect pitch. It's actually been fun in the last while, because he can carry his voice quite well now, that it allows me to occasionally sing in harmony to him. For me as a regular leader of worship, it's a dream come true!
I hope that if you're reading this, that you can also be encouraged by someone making music. I'll leave with these words from one of my favorite sections in Psalms (95:1-3), and words that Dawson seems to testify to us every day;
"Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.
For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods."

With words like that, how can we keep from singing? -t

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