He keeps me singing

I had some grand plans this evening of accomplishing somethings I have been putting off all week. Have I mentioned it's been a full week? Instead however, I went to the movies.

I finally got to see the critically acclaimed LaLa Land.

I won't spend much time describing the movie because that's not the point. What I will tell you is that it's a musical that brings a story line from now and unites it with the musical genres of the past.

My heart was full. The music and presentation always evokes something in me. Emotion, passion, I am not entirely sure what. Suffice it to say, it speaks to me.

I'm not writing this tonight to just give you a recap of my day. I am writing this because things like this always awaken something inside of me. I have an intense passion for music. It's like I can't help it. It speaks to me on a level that almost nothing else can.

Tonight, I got in my car and listened to the instrumental theme from the movie again, and tears rolled down my cheeks.

It's like my heart swells up three sizes when I hear music like that. It takes my breath away.

I can't imagine my life without music. I'm so grateful to have it. It has carried me through seasons when I didn't even realize it was. It is a gift to me.

I have music in my heart. It's beyond a typical love of music, it resonates to the core of who I am. Its something that just pours out of me. I think the reason musicals like this one do something so deep to me is because there is a very real part of me that wishes I could just stop and pour my emotions out in a song at any given moment of my life. It's something I can't even full explain.

There's an old hymn that has always summed it up well.

"There's within my heart a melody. Jesus whispers sweet and low, 'Fear not I am with you. Peace be still,' in all of life's ebb and flow. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Sweetest name I know. Fills my every longing, keeps me singing as I go."

There is a melody in my heart, He keeps me singing.

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