Seeking Refuge
By Sarah Immanuel, Germantown

A few years back, my dad had a mild heart attack, about a week before my birthday. My dad is diabetic and doesn't really have the best fitness or eating habits, so I suppose I should have expected it, but I didn't and the news totally broke me. This was my dad. He was supposed to be a rock; he was supposed to be superman; he was supposed to be stability in an ever changing world, and here he was getting sick, being human.
  A little bit afterwards, while he was still in the hospital, but not critical, I was running and the song "Chaos" by Mute Math came on in my ipod. It's weird, because I normally don't think this way, but I felt like God was actually speaking to me through the lyrics. Usually, I just felt like he was present in church or when I was praying, but there he was, talking to me as I ran. The lyrics were "You stay true when my world is false, everything breaking down to chaos..." and it felt like God was just saying that I should trust in Him, not in anything else, not even in my earthly dad. He was answering my fears with Himself. Even though it wasn't an answer that I wanted or was seeking, it was the answer I needed to hear and that was the first of many times I've felt God gently speaking to me through music.

 

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