"Welcome to the days of wariness,
Where I'm feeling an echo inside my chest,
I've got a heart beating patiently along,
Waiting for the other half of its song."
I have been on a Kina Grannis kick recently, I've been listening to her album almost non-stop for the past four days. The other day I was driving around Rio Rancho and listening to this song and these lyrics just really grabbed me. I started thinking about the state of life that I'm perpetually in (single), and how tiresome it gets. The idea expressed in the lyrics though, "I've got a heart beating patiently along, waiting for the other half of its song," really struck a chord with me in a very real way.
The more that I started to think about it during my drive around Rio Rancho, the more that I really came to reflect on the significance of that. Our lives as Christians are meant to be a song lifted up to the Lord. Throughout scripture and the fathers of the Church we hear about how "singing is praying twice," or the power of a song, or the need to "sing a new song to the Lord." This idea of singing your "life song" is intimately connected to growing and offering up all that you are to the Lord. If you look into the Song of Songs, it's written as (mainly) a duet, between the king and his beloved. The thing that really stood out to me is just simply that two parts are necessary to make that book as beautiful as it is. Right now, I'm simply in the days of wariness, and often it really does feel like there is a hollow, empty echo inside of my chest, waiting to love someone and be loved in return. Despite this though, my heart, the very physicality of my being is continuing to trod and beat along, waiting to be answered. This isn't only a spiritual longing to sing and have my life song complimented by the one that God has ordained for me, but also a very tangible, very real physical longing to have someone to hold, someone to laugh with, someone to grow old with and raise a family with. This physicality ties in theologically with the understanding of the theology of the body, and even biblically that the relationship between a man and a woman is the road to sanctification for many as is witnessed by the prophet Hosea. This longing is simply another means to holiness, for the first time in my life it occurred to me to offer up the suffering of my loneliness for my future spouse. What a beautiful gift that is and can continue to be, to be able to legitimately say to the one who has captured your very being, "Every time I felt lonely and wanted someone to be with, I offered it up for you and you alone, my darling." The song of my heart is waiting to be completed with its second part, it's meant to be a duet, and quite simply whenever the day comes for me, the joy that will well up within me will cause me to sing. Until then, my heart will beat, patiently, waiting for the other half of its song.
Where I'm feeling an echo inside my chest,
I've got a heart beating patiently along,
Waiting for the other half of its song."
I have been on a Kina Grannis kick recently, I've been listening to her album almost non-stop for the past four days. The other day I was driving around Rio Rancho and listening to this song and these lyrics just really grabbed me. I started thinking about the state of life that I'm perpetually in (single), and how tiresome it gets. The idea expressed in the lyrics though, "I've got a heart beating patiently along, waiting for the other half of its song," really struck a chord with me in a very real way.
The more that I started to think about it during my drive around Rio Rancho, the more that I really came to reflect on the significance of that. Our lives as Christians are meant to be a song lifted up to the Lord. Throughout scripture and the fathers of the Church we hear about how "singing is praying twice," or the power of a song, or the need to "sing a new song to the Lord." This idea of singing your "life song" is intimately connected to growing and offering up all that you are to the Lord. If you look into the Song of Songs, it's written as (mainly) a duet, between the king and his beloved. The thing that really stood out to me is just simply that two parts are necessary to make that book as beautiful as it is. Right now, I'm simply in the days of wariness, and often it really does feel like there is a hollow, empty echo inside of my chest, waiting to love someone and be loved in return. Despite this though, my heart, the very physicality of my being is continuing to trod and beat along, waiting to be answered. This isn't only a spiritual longing to sing and have my life song complimented by the one that God has ordained for me, but also a very tangible, very real physical longing to have someone to hold, someone to laugh with, someone to grow old with and raise a family with. This physicality ties in theologically with the understanding of the theology of the body, and even biblically that the relationship between a man and a woman is the road to sanctification for many as is witnessed by the prophet Hosea. This longing is simply another means to holiness, for the first time in my life it occurred to me to offer up the suffering of my loneliness for my future spouse. What a beautiful gift that is and can continue to be, to be able to legitimately say to the one who has captured your very being, "Every time I felt lonely and wanted someone to be with, I offered it up for you and you alone, my darling." The song of my heart is waiting to be completed with its second part, it's meant to be a duet, and quite simply whenever the day comes for me, the joy that will well up within me will cause me to sing. Until then, my heart will beat, patiently, waiting for the other half of its song.
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