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What is your favorite seashore memory?
My 10th and newest album Climb to the Sky has two songs drawing inspiration from Psalm 139. The first is the title track, and the second is called Counting the Sand of the Sea, which came from verses 17-18…
“Your thoughts—how rare, how beautiful! God, I’ll never comprehend them! I couldn’t even begin to count them—any more than I could count the sand of the sea.” (The Message)
From 6th to 12th grade I lived in the Florida panhandle, about thirty minutes from Santa Rosa Island, part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore. The water is a beautiful blue green, and for many people, perhaps their favorite element. However, for me it is the sand — a glorious white color, with an extremely fine texture. There is just nothing like it between your toes.
The gulf island seashores are one of my favorites, but in 2015 a new seashore took first place, when I was able to see the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. The combination of cliffs, sand, and sea creates breathtaking views, and stirs the heart with God’s beauty and wonder.
Hillsong United is a worship band based in Australia, who wrote one of today’s most popular songs of faith titled Oceans. The chorus sings…
Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders
Let me walk upon the waters
Wherever You would call me
Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander
And my faith will be made stronger
In the presence of my Savior.
Isaiah 55:8-9 says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Will you join me today, in remembering a favorite seashore, and in meditating on Psalm 139?
Britt Franklin says
Love your music. Thank you for sharing your talent with us.
Stanton Lanier says
Thank you for listening and commenting. Grace and peace to you!
Claire says
As soon as I heard this I felt I had to have a go at playing it! Just bought the sheet music, can’t wait to get started. Thank you so much for creating such beautiful music!
Stanton Lanier says
Dear Claire, You are so welcome and thank you for supporting Music to Light the World through your sheet music purchase. I hope you enjoy learning this piece as much as I enjoyed composing it. Blessings to you, Stanton.