Nightingale

I was listening to this song in the car yesterday; I had put it on a mix (The Godless Mix) that I made for a thirteen year old budding atheist. I told him when I gave it to him that I felt it was better that he be an informed agnostic than an ignorant atheist. Totally over his head, as is the song, but my hope is to plant little seed.

This song is one of the most under-rated songs about the search for God and it's hauntingly beautiful and heart-breaking in its message. Nightingale by Judy Collins:

Jacob’s heart bent with fear,
Like a bow with death for its arrow;
In vain he search for the final truth
To set his soul free of doubt.

Over the mountains he walked,
With his head bent searching for reason;
Then he called out to God for help
And climbed to the top of a hill.

Wind swept the sunlight through the wheat fields,
In the orchard the nightingale sang,
While the plums that she broke with her brown beak,
Tomorrow would turn in to song.
Then she flew up through the rain
With the sun silver bright on her feathers.
Jacob put back his frowns and sighed and walked

Back down the hill. "God doesn’t answer me"
And He never will.

What miracles might you find if you learned to see them?