Seek the Lord
Years ago, someone once told me that my music was for a time. I took that to mean a time when people are broken, lost, suffering, and hurting. A future time when life would be harder than it is now. The Lord seems to inspire much of my songwriting in a prophetic way - lyrics to soothe, exhort, and call to Christ for a time in the future, collectively. But there are always hurting people around us. Oh they may put on a good show, but God knows the pain they carry in their hearts. I asked someone the other day what her "takeaway" from the pandemic was and her answer stunned me with its shallowness. She said something about wearing a mask, or some such thing. Wow. To be fair, I had only just met this person, so maybe she didn't feel comfortable opening up her deepest feelings to me. But there was gold to be mined during this pandemic! Did we turn to Christ more? Did we see His hand in all of this? Did the isolation force us to realize our need for others that mu