Something Wild

While in India if I ever have a desire to have decent WiFi I need to go to my new favorite coffee shop called Delize. I have come so often with my team that they now easily recognize us and smile. It’s in moments like these where I wish that I spoke more Telegu(the common language). For the most part I am able to converse with their broken English, or my even more appalling grumble of syllables I would like to call Telegu. Though there does come moments when I wish I could simply understand, or have more time than one month to come to an equal understanding. Well I am getting off subject, that is the topic of another blog post… Anywho as I sit here in this wonderful place I had started listening to one of my favorite songs and God gave me a blessing of realization.

So I love music, probably more than anything else in this world- besides the obvious. It is such an amazing thing that God has given to his children. The magical ability to bring such joy, such sorrow simply from precious perfect words and man made devices that illicit sound. Here at a worship school I have learned to love music even more than before; which I had though was an impossibility. Once again this is another long blog post for another time. Before I left for this trip I would blare music from either the living room or my bedroom and just dance until I would fall to the floor. It was one of my hidden moments of complete and utter joy. One song that I listened quite possibly over 1000 times before I left was “Something Wild” by Lindsey Stirling and Andrew McMahon. .Have you ever had a song that strummed along to the rhythm of your heart. That sound was the magical synchronization between soul and music. I had no idea why the song felt like it was written specifically for me but now I completely understand.

You had your maps drawn
You had other plans
To hang your hopes on
Every road they led you down felt so wrong
So you found another way

You’ve got a big heart
The way you see the world
It got you this far
You might have some bruises
And a few scars
But you know you’re gonna be okay
Even though you’re scared
You’re stronger than you know

If you’re lost out where the lights are blinding
Caught in all the stars are hiding
That’s when something wild calls you home, home
if you face the fears that keep you frozen
Chase the sky into the ocean
That’s when something wild calls you home, home

This is only the first half of the song so I would urge you to listen to the rest of it but the lyrics give me goose bumps every time I hear them. It’s weird but it feels like I am looking at my testamony in this song.

You see, I myself had a plan for my life- I had dreams that I wanted to strive towards for myself. Though I knew that my plans were not the right roads to go down. So God was my other way. I am still healing I still have bruises but God is the strength that I never knew that I had or could rely on. Here I am in India in a place where I am constantly blinded by the truths of my new reality. But here this place, this mission trip is my “something wild”. This trip led me home. I had and am still learning to face my fear, to become bold in the identity of who God has called me to be. So here I am on the other side of the world and I am going to chase the sky into the ocean because I know that if i do- if I let God lead me to places I never thought I would go- that’s when something wild will call me home.