This comes from a line from a song by one of my favorite groups Casting Crowns. The song is called " Does Anybody Hear Her" and in the chorus goes
Does anybody hear her
Can anybody see
Does anybody even know she's going down today
Under the shadow of our steeple
With all the lost and lonely people
Searching for the hope that's tucked away in you and me
From that song I picture this girl about 19 whose like I used to be...a person who made all the wrong decisions... a girl who was "running a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction". She's too ashamed to enter the church and too afraid to walk away so she stands there with the other lost souls who feel the same in the shadows.
I don't identify myself with the meaning of the song as much as I do that picture of the girl standing there.....but for different reasons. I stand under the shadow of the steeple as it represents "tradition"...as in the "traditional church" that I grew up in. I stand in the shadow of that tradition....not quiet traditional, not quiet modernized.....too afraid to stay, too afraid too leave. I stand outside that tradition because I don't belong there...I don't believe anyone really does....that church is not like the 1st century church was and therefore it is not true tradition...it is a charade...but I don't yet know where I'm going outside of that shadow yet either so I don't move. And sometimes that shadow prohibits me from doing more than I do, but one day I know I will move....
But for now, I will write my "blogs" from the under the steeple. I will talk with people who go in that church, people who scoff at that church, people who don't' even notice that church, and the people who stand in the shadows with me because of the "lofty glances from lofty people". I'll watch the people laugh and hug, the people cry and fight....the people jump off bridges near by and kiss on park benches down the walk. And I'll wait.....I'll wait til God says it's time to move...and then..................................................then I'll move on.
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It is hard sometimes to get out of "the way things used to be." I am beginning to believe more and more everyday that God wants me to pursue Him and whatever that looks like is glorifying to Him. It's glorifying to Him because seeking him with all your heart (Jeremiah 29:13) is exactly what he asks for. I too will pray that God speaks to your heart to seek Him and leave behind the things that pale in comparison to who He is.
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