An
Inkling
Make new friends, and keep the old. One is silver and the other gold. The old aphorism about friends new and old is true
as well for worship songs.
I
have been lifted in worship for nearly forty years (!) by the music of John
Michael Talbot. Many of his songs, which
glistened as silver initially for me, have become as gold through repeated
encounters with the Lord carried on their wings.
So
I was reminded recently during a morning prayer walk as I sang along with one
of his songs, Let Us Adore the Lord. I had first heard it on vinyl, and had not
heard it for some years, until hearing it afresh via iPod. But quickly it captured my heart up in
praise, now aglow for me with a deeper understanding than it was when I first
heard it.
I
know little of jewelry and such, but understand that the beauty of fine jewelry
is often enhanced as it is reset. So it
is with these songs, as they’re reset in another season of life, and illumined
by the Lord’s light from new angles.
The
artists themselves are finding ways to reset these songs. This
link is to one of John Michael Talbot’s songs that first came out on vinyl,
then CD, then iPod, and now in video.
The videography for this piece, The
Pleiades and Orion, really sets it off.
Scout around on line, and you’ll find more and more of your golden
worship pieces reset to video art, as the lovers of Jesus seek to make his
praise ever more glorious.
His,
and thus yours,
Keith
