Oh send out your light and your truth, let them lead me;
let them bring me to your holy hill, and to your dwelling.
Psalm 43:3
We had a music therapist come teach us at our recent Cancer Support Group and oh man it was so cool.
Music is amazing.
It literally heals us. Did you know that?
Music can calm you down, slow your respiratory and heart rate, lower stress, make you feel understood, connect you to yourself and each other… it’s just amazing.
I sang in a choir in college that held hands while we performed, and a study on this kind of singing showed that our heart rates would beat in time to the music and to each other.
Isn’t that incredible?
Music is IN us. It’s innate.
So this week, I have a song for us as the uplift.
It’s called “My Lighthouse” by Rend Collective, and it’s a song that I listen to whenever I’m struggling or having a bad day. Somehow it always makes me feel better.
It acknowledges that life gets crappy.
Really crappy sometimes.
And yet, there’s a light, bringing us safely to shore.
The uplift verse today is what they based this song on – about a light that brings you safely to shore when the seas get rocky and you aren’t sure you can weather the storm.
Lighthouses are built on rocks, so they last, and so they are seen.
And that is God for us.
Standing strong.
Shining a light into the darkest of nights,
the foggiest of days,
the roughest storms.
Bringing us safely to shore, on that solid ground again.
Look at the lyrics below, (oh they are just SO GOOD)
See the many, many, promises contained in them,
and then listen.
In my wrestling and in my doubts
In my failures You won’t walk out
Your great love will lead me through
You are the peace in my troubled sea
In the silence, You won’t let go
In the questions, Your truth will hold
Your great love will lead me through
You are the peace in my troubled sea
My Lighthouse, my lighthouse
Shining in the darkness, I will follow You
My Lighthouse, my lighthouse
I will trust the promise,
You will carry me safe to shore
I won’t fear what tomorrow brings
With each morning I’ll rise and sing
My God’s love will lead me through
