In my heart of hearts, I want to be a singer.
I have wanted to be a singer since I can remember. My most favorite compliment I have received as an adult was when a member of our congregation told me that my voice reminded them of Dolly Parton. When I was a kid, that’s whose music moved me the most. She inspired me and her voice moved me to places of peace, pain, sorrow and joy.
I think that is the power of music, whether it be in song or symphony: it moves us. Sometimes music expresses our feelings when we are at a loss for words, sometimes it illuminates a path we want to take but didn’t have the direction until we heard the melody.
That’s the thing about music, it has this power to transform the here and now into what might be; it has a way of expressing the pain in poetry that we might never be able to express.
I believe that is why music is so pleasing to the Lord. When we are carried into this transforming power of music, we come to God with our whole being in ways that are beyond ourselves. We have the power of the music carrying us closer to God, expressing more to God than we had thought possible. Songs we sing in praise, music we hear in notes – it all is a joy unto the Lord.
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