It Is Well with My Soul
Music has always served to strengthen my connections: the connection to my emotions, the ties to friends and family, and my experience of God and faith. Each of these pull at my heart in different ways but lately God has been calling me to allow His connections to bleed over into the others, covering them with the blood of Christ. The emotional connection is particularly vulnerable at this time; as I write this the world is dealing with a once-in-a-century pandemic and voters are going to the polls in force for one of the most tense elections in decades. The worldly nature in me frets over what will happen if certain candidates or policies win the day, while God calls for His desires to take over my heart. At times I feel strained as if I'm listening for a whisper in a crowded room but whenever a hymn comes on I can literally feel the redeeming love of Christ covering my fears. The theology of these songs lines up with what I have been reading in ...