A Song In a Chevy Sprint

What songs bring back memories for you?

Maybe it’s a song from a time of your life when something special happened, or from a time in your life when someone special happened. You hear that song and that special feeling comes back.

There’s a song that takes me to a place that I needed to go to

When I was younger everything I did was in a rush.  I rushed in the morning to get where I was going, then rushed all day, and then rushed back home.  I even rushed to get to bed to go to sleep so I could get up and start the madness all over again.

One day during all my rushing I was listening in my car to the 2nd Chapter of Acts album, Singer Sower. It’s an amazing record. I was taping my hands on the steering wheel to the beats of the first song, Room Noise. I continued taping away when the second song, Beware My Heart, came on.  

The lyrics of the song sank into my heart in a way I’ll never forget 

Annie Herring’s beautiful voice sang in my car to me…

Tick tock, time is eroding,
Seconds are floating,
And I can’t catch them;
Racing, round in a hurry, makes worry
It’s time to steal away.

I could feel the Holy Spirit convicting and warning me,  “Joel, slow down. You’re going too fast.”  As I was becoming more aware of God speaking to me, the next lines from the song said…

I’ve got to take my heart into a silent place,
I’ve got to take my heart and teach it silence…silence,
Silence your heart, set it apart.

“Yes Lord!” I cried out. Tears began to flood my eyes. I pulled my car over and had the most incredible encounter with God. And as a result, over the years I have learned to catch myself when the “hurrying and worrying” starts, to “steal away” to a silent place and “set my heart apart.” 

I am thankful to God for the memories that song stirs in me…and for special thing that happened one day in a little blue Chevy Sprint stopped on the side of the road.