O, What A Beautiful Morning!

Want to know how to make a rather common, unattractive pathway into a delightful experience? Fill the air with song! Forget the excuses. Yes, you can sing. Maybe you shouldn’t audition for a role in Phantom Of The Opera, but you can sing. If you really have a complex about your singing ability, hum.

Uninhibited singing, on or off key, is a way to put a little spring in your step and a good thought in your mind. Caution: stay away from funerial songs. Those will take you straight to the first bench, and then the walk’s done. No, try some of those old hymns of the church, the ones you know by heart. Songs like Holy, Holy, Holy or For The Beauty Of The Earth or Joy To The World. You know the tunes, and even if you don’t remember the words, you can make up some. Imagine this: you are walking along the path and you’re singing All Hail The Power Of Jesus’ Name and you meet someone walking toward you and you tip your hat and give them a friendly greeting and you keep on singing. See, that felt good, didn’t it. Believe me, the world needs a song or two.

So, sit down right now and think of a song, a hymn, that you know…the tune, if not the words…put on your walking shoes and hit the road. Let the world know you’re here, challenge the birds’ songs, surprise the people you pass, wave to the ones who look at you like you’re strange. Some folks seem to be afraid of joy, but you’re not because the joy you carry and express is the presence of the Spirit of the God who made you and lives within you. You ARE strange…not better than or superior to…but different because of the way you see the world and live out your life. Like Christ, the Song within you wants to be set free into the world. Take heart. Have courage.

This world needs a song today. You’re it.