Every Season

I think a lot of the ladies who read my blog are Nichole Nordeman fans, so this may be something that you're familiar with already. While I really like her music, I don't have any of her CD's (yet), and up to now haven't known much about her music. I think this is going to change.

In church yesterday, we were talking about who God is. It was the first in a series that is going to dive deep, and try to go through the attributes of God. During the message, a video was played with a Nichole Nordeman song in the background. Maybe it was the video (different scenes in nature), maybe it was the overwhelming feeling of just how BIG God is, or maybe it was the moment. Whatever it was, this song hit me hard. The lyrics are absolutely wonderful (as in full of wonder), and the song itself is beautiful. I just had to share the lyrics.

Every Season

Every evening sky, an invitation

To trace the patterned stars

And early in July, a celebration

For freedom that is ours

And I notice You

In children’s games

In those who watch them from the shade

Every drop of sun is full of fun and wonder

You are summer

And even when the trees have just surrendered

To the harvest time

Forfeiting their leaves in late September

And sending us inside

Still I notice You when change begins

And I am braced for colder winds

I will offer thanks for what has been and was to come

You are autumn

And everything in time and under heaven

Finally falls asleep

Wrapped in blankets white, all creation

Shivers underneath

And still I notice you

When branches crack

And in my breath on frosted glass

Even now in death, You open doors for life to enter

You are winter

And everything that’s new has bravely surfaced

Teaching us to breathe

What was frozen through is newly purposed

Turning all things green

So it is with You

And how You make me new

With every season’s change

And so it will be

As You are re-creating me

Summer, autumn, winter, spring