A Storm's Breaking: part 3

Music this week helped me fill my mind with truth about longing, hope, and despair. It helped me to move beyond the lies to truth and helped me make truth part of my daily routine.

I'm writing a series on hope and advent for my church and to help my study I've been creating and listening to a playlist of music about the things that people hope for and it has been very helpful to fill my mind with good music about real longing. I was surprised to find so many singer-songwriters dealing with what I deal with.

I may post my playlist at a later date, but one album that deals with the longing, heaven, disappointment, and hope is "The Far Country" by Andrew Peterson. He is an independent singer-songerwriter that I have loved since middle school. It was encouraging for me to hear someone sing about my doubts, my fears, and stubborn faith.

"I can see in the strip malls and the phone calls

The flaming swords of Eden

In the fast cash and the news flash

And the horn blast of war

In the sin-fraught cities of the dying and the dead

Like steel-wrought graveyards where the wicked never rest

To the high and lonely mountain in the groaning wilderness

We ache for what is lost

As we wait for the holy God

Of Father Abraham

I was made to go there

Out of this far country

To my home, to my home"

The Far Country, Andrew Peterson