Chris' prayer: Jeremy Camp's "Beautiful One"

I've blogged about this song once before, so I thought I would go back and reread what I wrote. An excellent reminder and something I think about each time I hear this song. Here it is:

My soul, my soul must sing!
My soul, my soul must sing!
My soul, my soul must sing, “Beautiful One!”

Beautiful One, I love. Beautiful One, I adore.
Beautiful One, my soul must sing!

I love this song. I especially love the first line I posted. I just think it’s so indicative of how we should approach not just a song at Mass, or Mass itself, but our lives as Christians.

…or just our lives in general.

If we aren’t doing the things in our lives with such passion that it causes our very being to be moved, are we really doing what we are supposed to be doing? Shouldn’t the things that matter to us matter so much that they affect the way we act, who we are, to our very core?

I must say, Beautiful One didn’t always capture my mind the way it does every time I hear it now. It used to be “just another song.” Sure, it was good, but it wasn’t one of those special songs for me. One Sunday, however, as we were singing it for a closing song, my own sound was eclipsed by the sound of the person behind me (which, by the way, doesn’t happen too often!). (:

The way Pam was singing, I could tell that it meant something different to her than it meant to me at the time. I could hear the words coming from deep inside her, praising Jesus with everything that she had.

I was blown away. I had been singing…but I hadn’t been feeling the lyrics, letting them penetrate me and become a part of me. Every time we sing that song now, I think back to that day, and God’s little gift to me through Pam’s voice.

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