There are songs that make me yearn for heaven. Sometimes, quite suddenly, like I'm scooped out of my present life into the other one. I was sitting today in my favorite local coffee shop grading papers. It was late on this Sunday afternoon, a sunny sort of day that reminds me that spring will actually arrive sometime soon. I chose a table tucked into a dark, back corner. I'd cranked my iPod cranked up in order to wash out the flood of conversations and loud coffee shop music all around me.
It wasn't until I was half-way through Brett Dennen's song "Oh the Glorious" that I actually heard what I was listening to. Or rather, I'd been hearing it all along (and perhaps even surreptitiously mouthing the words), but it didn't click. I love this song. It brings me back to road trips through mountainous places. Or simply sitting on my bed journaling. The words and melody remind me of my deeper streams of heavenly yearning.
I had to stop my work, press repeat, and breathe. Well, I tried, anyway. What makes it so difficult to sit and do nothing in a coffee shop for 4 minutes and 38 seconds? The magnetic pull of the stack of papers yet to be graded was too much. Better luck next time.
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