Could it be that this was what God was asking of me: to take stock in the simple, abundant gifts all around me, delight in them like a child and find myself delighting in the Holy One right in front of me?
"One day the world tosses us a bouquet of roses, the next it crowns us with thorns," writes Michael Leach. "That's the nature of this valley of tears."
The Spirit moves songwriters and all other artists to grapple with the most profound questions of human life, and great works of art often deal with tragedy and pain and the bleakest parts of existence.
