Hope Road

I reread “Giving Your Heart Away” yesterday after getting another great comment on the entry, so when I was listening to Bethany Dillon tonight, a song of hers struck a chord with that thought process. She has a great little guitar ballad on her new album Waking Up. It’s called “Are You Sure?” and to me, it’s really relevant to the whole idea I talked about in that entry.

Sorry, I’m not one to post song lyrics, but here goes anyway. (I like the last couple of stanzas the best.)

I’ve written you a lot of songs
The kind you write on rainy days
Unrequited love
But now I’m humming a different tune
Just twelve hours ago
I was sitting on a bench with you

I’ve never heard something that sweet
But are you sure you want me?

I tried to say, I want this to work
And yet take off the weight
If you change your mind, I won’t hurt forever
Because I don’t know what else to do
But I’d do anything to have
Three more hours on a bench with you

Everything within me doesn’t want to risk
Doesn’t want to risk anymore
But if it means I get to see the light in your eyes
I’ll risk so much moreI won’t be full of second guesses
So now I’ll just sit
And think about how sweet this is

See what I mean? She talks about how scary it is to risk hurt, to risk giving your heart away, and yet how much she would lose if she didn’t take the risk. There’s courage involved.

It reminds of something I was reading in her journal about her engagement the other day. She wrote,

“I’ve never dated anyone besides Shane, and I totally believe that to be the provision of God in my life… YET… I know lots of people who have dated a bunch before finding their spouse, and it’s just as ordained by Him!”

I don’t know that I would put it quite that way, but I think the sentiment behind what she is saying is very similar to what we all discussed in that entry a few months ago. I was encouraged to find this somewhere else also.

Okay, done with the Bethany Dillon entries for awhile, I promise. I’m a fan, yes, but Nichole Nordeman is actually my all-time favorite. Haha.

Filed under: Marriage/Family, Singleness/Relationships on August 19th, 2007