The last few days the postman has smiled as he has daily delivered a CD from CD-wow. I ordered 3 that were all dispatched on the same day yet they arrived on 3 successive days! I have lapsed on my music purchases and now there are simply too many CD’s that I wish to buy. Three is a modest start … don’t tell Sarah!

I had a top 3 delivered this week and by far the best is X&Y. This is a superb album, with great sounds and fantastic lyrics. Moorcheeba too is a beautiful album with their distinct sound that I have grown to love and chill with over the years.

Some of the lyrics from both these artists are deep and imply to me a real sense of searching and longing for something both ‘out there’ and inside. They talk to me of a fear of being left alone,and to a fear of being empty inside. Take these two from X&Y:

What If

What if there was no light
Nothing wrong, nothing right
What if there was no time
And no reason, or rhyme
What if you should decide
That you don’t want me there by your side
That you don’t want me there in your life

Talk

Woh brother I can’’t, I can’’t get through.
I’’ve been trying hard to reach you, ‘‘cause I don’t know what to do.
O brother I can’t believe it’s true.
I’m so scared about the future and I wanna talk to you.

Once again Coldplay seem to be able to capture the dominant thoughts and fears of ‘everyday Joe’ in their music which sounds great (have I said that already?!) No doubt we will be using some of this in worship activities in the not too distant future.

Going back to a post months back where I was thinking on how God talks to us through art and music today, I wonder in the lyrics above. You could so easily assume this as being a cry of man; but could it be a cry of God to his creation too?

I do believe God is reaching out, crying out, finding it hard to reach us. It’s quite challenging too to think he is scared for us and wondering what to do. Is God calling out in these lyrics? Does God think and ask ‘what if … you reject me’? What if you don’t want me in your life?

We have a God who made himself vulnerable by becoming human, and he started that off by being born to what looked like a scandalous mother who was pregnant before she got married. In those Jewish times this prejudice would have been hanging over Jesus as he was growing up.

I think a big part of God’s vulnerability is shown through through giving us free will. He opened himself up to the pain of rejection. He felt it as a human and know understands the hurt in a deeper way than he did before his 30 year visit. I guess he feels that pain today as he looks out and asks ‘what if’ and begs ‘I wanna talk to you’