Today was a long day. As I sit here typing on my trusty MacBook Pro I am pushing a 19 hour day. It was a long day.
Driving home from work today I knew I needed a music boost so I put on Sara Groves. Sara’s music has become a soundtrack to my life. Those days that are great and the days that are not. The lyrics speak to parts of me that only music can find and help express.
I decided to take the windy road home tonight and soak up some beautiful music. As I was winding through the back roads the sun started to peak through the white mass of clouds. The breeze came to life and the leaves started dancing along the river bank. I grabbed my iPhone and snapped a few pictures of the beauty.
As I was driving these roads I was listening to the song ‘Add To The Beauty’ by Sara Groves. The lyrics bounced around in my head and they came to a new life.
We come with beautiful secrets
We come with purposes written on our hearts, written on our souls
We come to every new morning
With possibilities only we can hold, that only we can hold
Redemption comes in strange place, small spaces
Calling out the best of who we are
And I want to add to the beauty
To tell a better story
I want to shine with the light
That’s burning up inside
It comes in small inspirations
It brings redemption to life and work
To our lives and our work
It comes in loving community
It comes in helping a soul find it’s worth
Redemption comes in strange places, small spaces
Calling out the best of who we are
And I want to add to the beauty
To tell a better story
I want to shine with the light
That’s burning up inside
This is grace, an invitation to be beautiful
This is grace, an invitation
The open road and nature calls to the best of who I am. No matter how long the day, how worn out I am, how much I long to crawl into bed, how tomorrow brings me to my knees — it is about adding to the beauty. That windy road called to the best of me and inspired me to hope for more.
As this day has wound down and is already in the new I want to remember to seek a better story. To accept the invitation to see redemption. My hope is that we all take this journey together. After all … it is the only one worth taking.
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