I like listening to music throughout the day, and my children have become really responsive to many of the songs I have played for them, since they've heard the same ones many times since they were born. The other day my son, 3, (i'll just call him "S") ran over and declared "This song is the song that makes the monsters go away. When you play the music for me at night, and i listen to it and God makes all the monsters go away." It was a wonderful song by one of our favorite artists, Pierce Pettis "God Believes in You". I love how he is absorbing so much, how a simple thing like a playlist you quickly make on your ipod (and plug into his mickey speakers) when you just want him to *go to sleep already* can offer such protection to a child, even when he doesn't fully understand all of it.
That night, my son, S, slept fairly soundly during another storm. The lightning was flashing all around. After a brilliant flash I heard a blood-curdling scream. He was sitting up in his bed, asking in a terrified voice, "What is happening to my window?"
"It's lightning sweetie. It's from the rain, from the thunder. ..God makes the lightning go flash, remember? You are safe. We are here, we love you." I bring him in my room.
"Play me a song mommy, please make me a song." So i pulled out the ipod and put the same song on. Later my husband moved him back to his room, and when he woke up in the morning he was happy.
I asked him if he remembered the storm. He said, "Yes and you made me a nice song to make me all better. Thank you mommy!" I smiled but really it wasn't me. I am so thankful for beautiful and simple songs to make us feel the peace of God in the midst of the storm.
God Believes in You - Pierce Pettis
When you start to doubt if you exist
God believes in you
Confounded by the evidence
God believes in you
When your chances seem so slim
When your light burns so dim
And you swear you don't believe in him
God believes in you
When you rise up just to fall again
God believes in you
Deserted by your closest friends
God believes in you
When you're betrayed with a kiss
Turn your cheek to another fist
It doesn't have to end like this
God believes in you
Everything matters if anything matters at all
Everything matters
No matter how big
No matter how small
When you're so ashamed that you could die
God believes in you
And you can't do right even though you try
God believes in you
Blessed are the ones who grieve
The ones who mourn, the ones who bleed
In sorrow you sow
But in joy, you'll reap
God believes in you
Oh, God believes in you
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