Sometimes, the things that help me identify most with a song are the little snippets or phrases tucked within them. For example, I really like this song, Come Thou Long Expected Jesus, noted on a friend’s blog this Christmas, because of these phrases:
Born to set Thy people free;
From our fears and sins release us,
Let us find our rest in Thee.
It hints at what true freedom is really about. It is really more about what I learn to rest in than in what I am able to get away from or what I can overcome (both of which tend to be very wearying). I'm grateful for the meaning of these words for my friend and for the reminder they are to me.
Sometimes it is the smallest of things that catch our eye or our attention, that port meaning to and from our lives.
