Do You Hear What I Hear? Joining God’s Ever-Present Chorus

There are moments when music doesn’t just reach your ears – it takes your whole body captive. It finds your breath. It settles into your bones. It loosens something you didn’t even know you were holding.

Not long ago, Laura and I went with some dear friends to see U2 at the Sphere. I don’t quite know how to explain it except to say it was full immersion. Sound all around you. Light and image moving like a living thing. You could feel the music in your chest, your feet, your skin. It wasn’t something you watched. It was something you entered.

And we weren’t alone. Thousands of people, shoulder to shoulder, caught up in the same song. Singing words we’ve carried for years. Some with tears. Some with fists raised. Some just standing there, letting the music do what it needed to do. Different lives. Different stories. One shared rhythm.

I left that night thinking: This is what the Spirit feels like when we stop resisting it.

Scripture tells us that God sings over creation. That the Spirit moves like breath. Like wind. Like vibration. Not distant. Not abstract. But present – felt – experienced. The Holy Spirit doesn’t just inform us; the Spirit tunes us. Draws us into harmony with God and with one another.

We all know songs like that. Songs that carried us through grief. Songs that made us brave. Songs that remind us who we are when we forget. And most of us didn’t learn those songs alone. We learned them in cars, in kitchens, at bedsides, in sanctuaries, around tables – traveling with people who helped us hear what we might have missed on our own.

So today, I wonder what song is playing in the background of your life right now.

Is it quiet and aching? Is it hopeful and unfinished? Is it steady enough to lean on? Or wild enough to wake you up?

The invitation of faith is not just to listen – but to feel it. To let God’s song move through your whole self. To hum along when you don’t yet know the words. And when the moment is right, to sing – out loud, imperfectly, courageously.

And maybe – just maybe – to invite someone else to join the song.

Because God’s music has always been communal. And the Spirit still loves a good chorus.

Plotting goodness -

Joshua

Oh, and one more thing: this weekend we have the remarkable opportunity to host musician Julian Davis Reid for both a musical experience on Saturday night and the Faith Forum on Sunday. Find a way to not miss this extraordinary gift!