I'll echo what Icas and all the others said about not having thought of it as connected to Christianity when I heard it (on the radio). I had no idea it had anything to do with religion until my searches for the lyrics and the tablature kept leading me to Christian music sites.
It's an amazing, beautiful song, and speaks to the feelings of isolation and yearning that all humans have, the alternating wishes: To find something or someone who will fill that emptiness for us, and to let all we have and all we are and all that is around us soothe the emptiness without filling it. To let that be enough, as it says. Some reach for one of the various religions for either of these wishes, some reach for friends and family, there are as many ways of dealing with it as there are people. Touches right on the core or the pulse of one of the biggest aspects of the human condition. Great stuff.
I'll echo what Icas and all the others said about not having thought of it as connected to Christianity when I heard it (on the radio). I had no idea it had anything to do with religion until my searches for the lyrics and the tablature kept leading me to Christian music sites.
It's an amazing, beautiful song, and speaks to the feelings of isolation and yearning that all humans have, the alternating wishes: To find something or someone who will fill that emptiness for us, and to let all we have and all we are and all that is around us soothe the emptiness without filling it. To let that be enough, as it says. Some reach for one of the various religions for either of these wishes, some reach for friends and family, there are as many ways of dealing with it as there are people. Touches right on the core or the pulse of one of the biggest aspects of the human condition. Great stuff.