Divine Romance

"The fullness of Your grace is here with me The richness of Your beauty’s all I see The brightness of Your glory has arrived In Your presence God, I’m completely satisfied.

For You I sing I dance Rejoice in this divine romance Lift my heart and my hands To show my love, to show my love

A deep deep flood, an Ocean flows from You Of deep deep love, yeah it’s filling up the room Your innocent blood, has washed my guilty life In Your presence God I’m completely satisfied"

These Lyrics belong the Song Divine Romance By Phil Whickham Produced by Pete Kipley (MercyMe) and you can say many things about this track such as:

With amazing lyrical integrity, compelling artistic expression and an intimate cry to God through his unique voice, Phil Wickham combines a west coast ethic that channels the pop sensibilities of Coldplay with the emotive lyrics of singer songwriters like John Mayer.

But for me what really makes this song awesome is the kinda of impact it made at my School Fresno Christian when it firs came out. Well it first hit mainstream it was in the top ten of the Top 100 on itunes which is BIG for a christian song. only few gospel artists make big jumps like that such as The Fray,Switchfoot, and Lifehouse.

So i first heard this song i thought it was really catchy but i never really slowed down to hear the lyrics and from the parts hear and there that i listened to made it so that i thought it was just another acoustic guitar song about a guy pronouncing his love for some girl.

so then one day while i was on the myspace of a few female friends of mine the song title caught my eye one four seperate occasions. (these select people are not crazy about sharing their faith)
and so i kind of thought nothing of it.

Then a week later i found out the true meaning behind his song and how a divine romance does not only hav to be shared between a man and woman but also can be a relationship between yourself and the almighty, and it just hit me hard and was so cool that i saw this song on so many peoples sites meaning they must like the song and how they must hav thought it was another teen in love with teen song. and how that once they hear those lyrics theyll realize how god has his ways of being a part of your life even your love of music without you even knowing it.

The Tailor

So this last Sunday i had my world rocked. I got the real taste of having to defend my faith and stand up for what i beleive in. It was probably one of the most eye-opening experiences of my life. Well after the Sunday Church Service i came home and well i have a couple pairs of jeans i felt were to big for me so my mom took them to her Tailor to have them tightened and hemmed and so i tagged along. So heres a little background information on my mothers Tailor. Shes from Iraq and she was raised in the Catholic church. she has endured many hardships throughout her life and is a fairly wise lady. Shes known me for a good ten years now so she has seen me grown up. We hav always had conversations but nothing as in depth and as deep as the one we had on sunday. i dont recall how the talk began but it lead to her asking me where i went to church because she wanted to get her daughter involved and wanted to get her installed in a congregation and it turns out she had thought us to be Catholics these ten years we have known her. So i replied telling her i went to College Church of Christ and how great of a church it was and that we would be happy to take her daughter to a service one day. But then she asked if my church was catholic and told her it was a Christian Congregation. So the Debate began. she started to bombard me with questions of how the christian church and their beleifs were different then those of the Catholics. and so we each spoke of what we saw were the differences and we talked for a good two hours each of us defending spiritedly on what we beleived to be true. i won an argument than so did she. and it was a constant clash of religions. and so i finally pinpointed her on both our truths, The BIBLE, and how they can deride so many different portions of their beleif system without it being the word and the TRUTH. and so she was stuck and she did not reply for a while and then she began to move on from the subject. We both really relied on our knowledge from scripture to back up our stands on different topics. she of whom the knowledge was received from growing up in the church and I from all the bible classes at Fresno Christian and growing up in a private christian school my entire life. And as easy as that her rock was pulled out from underneath her. If her religion was not based fully on the Bible what had she to stand on? and so i felt i planted the seed in her heart and until the next time we meet i will see what that conversation had in store for her. Until then i will prepare and study my rock my stronghold, My Bible. and i will be ready to sustain another two hour conversation and who knows where this one may lead.