This past weekend at Women of Faith we heard some wonderful singing!! Nichole Nordeman and Avalon were there. I love Avalon. Their voices are amazing and I love their song Adonai. But...my true "fan" devotion lies with Nichole Nordeman. She is one of the most talented musicians I have ever heard. Her lyrics of every song go to some deep parts of the heart. Her music is true and meaningful. She writes all of her own music which I love too!
I heard her for the first time when I was 8 months pregnant with Malaya and I was floored and awed by her talent and the way she led the whole crowd to a place of worship. Nichole's music has been my "best friend" through some milestones in my life:
--Her music played a lot during those first few weeks of Malaya's life. It was calming for me and Malaya.
--When Malaya was 3 months old we moved from Abilene to Tulsa, Oklahoma. My heart was so scared and torn driving that drive to Tulsa for the first time. David had bought us an apartment over the internet. I had never seen it. We knew NO ONE. It was very scary. Nichole's music played in the car. Her song about Jesus being crucified was playing and I realized that my fear was insignificant and that God was going to be there for me as He was for His own son.
--Many of you know that David andI have been trying to have another baby for over 4 years now. A year and half into that journey I was seeing a specialist and they did a very expensive procedure that I was just SURE had worked. I had the blood work done that I knew would be positive. I went back to my parents house in Grapevine to await my good news. They called and said that it did not work. I was not pregnant. My mom kept Malaya and the whole way home I played over and over a song called My Offering as I bawled and cried out to the Lord and gave Him my life over and over again. There truly was an angel driving my car that day b/c I have no clue how I made it home. :)
-About a year after that God started teaching me a lot about "church". What it is and is not supposed to be. Of course, another one of Nichole's songs was there.
"Oh, the days when I drew lines around my faith to keep you out, to keep me in, to keep it safe.
Oh the sense of my own self, to say whose wrong, who won't belong, or who can not stay.
Cause, somebody, somewhere decided we'd be better off divided and somehow despite the damage done,
He says come.
There is room enough for all of us.
Please come.
The arms are opened wide enough.
Please come.
This is the heart of the one who stands before and open door and bids us come.
Oh the times when I have failed to recognize, how many chairs are gathered there around the feast.
To break the bread and break these boundaries that have kept us from our only common ground, the invitation to sit down if we will come.
There is room enough for all of us.
Please come.
And the arms are open wide enough.
Please come.
This is the heart of the one, who stands before an open door and bids us come."
I love it.
More Nichole lyrics to come also. Maybe I will do a Nichole "Song of the week".
Her new CD is amazing. If you don't have it, you need it!! Her single Brave has reminded me that with Christ we can have the strength to do and get through anything.
Anybody else have an artist that the Lord has worked through to draw you near to Him during certain times in you life? I would love to hear them.
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Stephen Curtis Chapman has filled my car with fun and worship and tears. So many of his songs express my thoughts, or lead me to new ones. I still cry every time I hear "Speechless."
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