| | I know that most of you are already aware of this little nugget of knowledge, but for those that aren't....here's your "heads up"! We're one week in and we're pretty thrilled. Lots of good reviews have been coming in and they're not just good reviews, but we've had some encouraging glimpses in them that maybe someone is starting to understand us a bit...Christianity Today said, "The bulk of The Bright Sadness is admittedly far from the stuff
of Sunday morning church services, but that doesn't negate its
effectiveness as a worship album. It's alternative, but it's still a
terrific disc that could well find an audience among more
left-of-center congregations and ministries. Better yet, it sounds
great on a stereo, which makes it ideal for a time of worship in a
personal setting."
It feels good for someone to say these things about us out loud. We're a band who leads worship, but worship songs aren't just the songs that every congregation knows before they even hear them. They can also be songs that we listen to as we meditate and think on Jesus...songs that we can grit our teeth and confess our failures and doubts and still bring them to the feet of Jesus our Redeemer.
I can only speak for myself with absolute certainty on this one, but I think the rest of the guys would agree. One of our hopes is that the worship music that's being written (in general) would begin to look and sound more and more like Psalms. There's lots of beautiful honesty and truth in that book. Honesty is about acknowledging how and where you are, truth is about acknowledging how and where God is. A big part of faith is submitting the former to the latter. For some reason, we tend to be afraid to admit our weakness and doubts until after we have conquered them and can learn a lesson from them. I don't see David modeling that in scripture. I see him embracing God even when he doesn't understand Him.
Charlie's been saying a phrase here lately that's caught my attention. "I understand God less, but I love Him more." Every so often I'm reminded of how human I am, and how big God is. It's comforting and unsettling all at the same time. C.S. Lewis summed it up well in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, "He is not safe...but he is good" and that's the bottom line for me. We can't always figure Him out, but we know that He's holy. We know that life doesn't always make sense, but we know that somehow He turns our mourning into dancing. I don't pretend to understand all of this, I just know that in the darker moments of life I hang onto that truth when my knuckles are bruised and bleeding, like now.
This is My_Bright_Sadness.
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