dailydatewithgod

One of my favorite what I call God-songs (songs that remind me of God and God’s presence) is “Everywhere” by Michelle Branch.  She sings of a knowing and a unknowing of God.  She speaks of how sometimes she can see or feel God and other times she cannot.  Yet throughout there is a sense she has that she can trust God is there and she is not alone.  I think often we are looking for a certainty from God in human form.  Our sight and our feelings are concrete ways in which we experience life.  I believe sometimes God is very humanly concrete, but other times my knowing of God doesn’t even make sense to me.  I also know God to show up in different ways.  I sometimes cannot see or feel God because I expect God to be a certain way.  What I connect to most is that my relationship with God is the one thing that helps me know I am not alone.  Like the songwriter I too have been touched through my eyes, my body, and my heart by the presence of God.  There is no going back.  At the end of the song, she asks, “Do you see me?”  I believe it is a common human struggle to see God in ourselves.  We have evidence in things outside of ourselves but in the quiet spaces we wonder what God sees.  Many years ago when I lost over 160 or so pounds, I had a hard time recognizing myself in the mirror, literally!  My body had changed so much over the course of less than two years and my mind had not caught up.  I started to say a simple prayer at night before I went to sleep.  I would look at myself in the medicine cabinet mirror and say “God, help me to see me as you see me.”  At the time, I was thinking of my physical body.  Now I realize my prayer was much deeper.  It was a reaching out to see all of myself and all of life, everything, everywhere with the eyes of God.  Perhaps that was what the song writer was looking for too.