I recognize it's been a long time since I've posted a note ...... for many reasons .... but today I am prompted to supply just one little reflection.
Last night, Joy, Joyce, Lois and I went to see "The Sound of Music", a birthday "exchange" treat for Joy and I. It was a marvellous evening from the time we met until a joyful sleep whisked me off over the hills of slumber once more.
Most prominent, however, became one line at the end of the musical ... that touched my heart profoundly. The von Trapp family was in the Abbey, seeking sanctuary, as they are about to embark on their journey to freedom over the mountains of Austria to Switzerland. The Mother Abbess is speaking in a spirit of prayer as she blesses them and says, "I will lift up my eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help. For ye shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace. The mountains and the hills will break forth before you into singing." ( Psalm 121:1, Isaiah 55:12)
My heart gasped~! "The mountains and the hills will break forth before you into singing."!!
WOW!! You see, my family is on a journey to freedom over the mountain before us .... freedom from concerns and burdens that lay heavy on our hearts. We have a mountain in our lives right now .... one that does not look like it is offerring any help ... or joy..... or peace. In fact, it seems unsurpassable. Yet, all of a sudden my heart grasped that not only can God MOVE this mountain, with less effort than it took last night on stage!... but, He can even cause the mountain - the very thing that hinders us now - to break forth into singing!!! A place of JOY!!! And maybe, God isn't as interested in MOVING the mountain, as He is in TRANSFORMING this mountain ..... from a place of pain, to a place of JOY! GREAT JOY!!!
I love the idea of my place of fear and devastation becoming my place of refuge and song! I love the idea that the terror of silence now, so much still hidden in the crevices of the mountain ... that these places of disbelief will become the well-spring of joyous song!!!!!
An unwritten song, ...... an unpenned melody as yet, but, knowing that if God is putting the harmonies together....... It will be a song worth singing!!!And so, I turn to face this mountain this morning ..... and wait for the Conductor to lift His baton .... and turn discord into song! I'm waiting to hear this mountain sing!!!
