What A Song Can Do

Yet another lesson! During the time when we would wake up in the cabin, and during our chill time in the afternoon, we would play music. After a couple of the days, the girls really loved the song "Does Anybody Hear Her" by Casting Crowns. They would ask for us to play it over and over for them. I really got to thinking when we would listen to this song. Why did these girls like this song so much? After listening to the words over and over, I wondered if it was because they found themselves in the song more than anything. I wondered if they felt like the world around them was all put into place, and that they had no place. That the church was just ignoring them and that they did not fit in. Throughout the rest of the week I worked to show the girls that there was really meaning behind the song. At times I found it really hard to get on the girls level, and any little thing they did I would get irritated with because it was not only disrespectful to themselves, but to God. I learned that in order to help them to understand, I needed to be a bit more compassionate to them. I needed to leave my own sheltered little world and open up to what they had to offer. I found this difficult, but at the same time rewarding. It is amazing what one song can do to open the eyes of many and put meaning behind different lives!