I listened…and I heard…

Something unexpected happened to me last week; it caught me off guard and I was not prepared.

I’m not sure it is something I can fully explain it. So forgive my rambling as I try to express what happened in one small moment.

If you press play below, I’ll try my best to take you back to where I was in that moment…

Sitting. Listening. And trying to hear.…

Last year, I spent countless days, weeks and even months writing the lyrics and songs for our latest album: Echoes of Wonder. And you would think after all that time that I knew the songs I had written pretty well, wouldn’t you! At least I thought I knew what they were about. After all, I had spent time crafting each one carefully. Writing and re-writing…

And as it turns out, there was more contained within these songs of ‘mine’ than even I knew.

As I sat on the train on regular journey into Stockholm, looking out over the frozen lakes & watching people walk on water (well, frozen-water…but still!). Taking in the beauty of the illuminating sun; hanging low in the winter sky, just above the rooftops of this snow-capped city. I stopped thinking for a moment and I just listened: To this music which I had a hand in creating yet felt strangely unfamiliar to me…

For the first time, I listened with intention to the evolving instrumentation and lyrics that I had penned.

And for the first time… in my listening… I heard!

The song ‘Did You Hear It?’ is a song about listening for God’s voice in our lives. Sometimes we make ourselves so busy, we don’t hear it. Sometimes we hear it but we just don’t want to know. The answer wasn’t quite what we were looking for. It isn’t quite the path I wanted. It makes me uncomfortable.

How closed I have been. This song was written with the intention of being an encouragement to everyone who hears it. But in that moment, and for the first time, I knew it was also written for me…

For God to speak to my heart too.

Did you hear it in the wind?
Did you fear it once again?
Did you see it closing in?
Did you wonder if it was for you again?

The answer that you wanted isn’t there for you. You know in time you’ll need to see this thing through.

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Written by Anita on 26th January 2016 in Faith, Life, Music

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