{"id":54,"date":"2008-04-14T02:07:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T06:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=54"},"modified":"2013-03-17T14:55:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T18:55:53","slug":"following-spirit-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/following-spirit-leads\/","title":{"rendered":"Following as the Spirit Leads"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the last four days I puzzled over what song to sing in church today.* By this morning I’d narrowed it down to four choices:<\/p>\n

– “Big Enough” by Chris Rice — “I hope you don’t mind me asking the questions”
\n– “Trinity” by Jennifer Knapp — “Where do I stand, on the rock or in the sand?”
\n– “Pray Where You Are” by the Lost Dogs — “In our hopes and fears and struggles, great or small”
\n– “Beautiful Scandalous Night” by the Lost Dogs — “At the wonderful, tragic, mysterious tree”<\/p>\n

I like each one for different reasons; they all speak to me, but I wasn’t sure which one to do. I was leaning away from “Big Enough” because it’s the hardest to play; I need to practice a lot more to get the chord changes. And I wasn’t sure how many people would appreciate the whole of “Pray Where You Are.”<\/p>\n

Then, stopped at a traffic light on my way to church this morning<\/em>, I thought, “I’m a little hungry” … whereupon the song “Hungry” popped into my head: “Hungry I come to you for I know you satisfy.”<\/p>\n

I thought, No way. (I didn’t even remember what chords it had in it.)<\/p>\n

But when I got to church I figured I had to at least try it, so back in the music room I found it in my notebook and gave it a go. It was rough, and awkward, and I still thought hard about doing “Beautiful Scandalous Night,” but in the end I went through with it and nobody threw anything at me. It helped a lot that Pastor Mark played along on the piano (without any music, of course, the show-off \ud83d\ude09 ).<\/p>\n

And all the time I think God was chuckling, pointing at me and saying to the angels, “Look what I made him do.”<\/p>\n

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