![]() ![]() Much of what inspired this song grew from that conversation. It all had the whiff of a divine appointment, and thanks to Southwest Airline’s open seating policy, Ron was soon seated next to me and for the next three hours I got an education that brought some clarity to my understanding of myself and the way the human heart works. So when he spotted me, smiled, and said “I’m sitting by you!” I guess I felt a little like the girl from America’s Got Talent – “Ron Block wants to sit by me?” I thought to myself. Heck, he even made an appearance in one of my favorite movies: “Oh Brother Where Art Thou”. Not only is Ron a really kind and intelligent guy, but he also happens to be in one of the most accomplished bands in the world, Alison Krauss’s Union Station. It had been on my mind to give him a call for several months already when, sitting on a plane in Seattle one night in January, I watched him board. He knew something that I want to know, and so I wanted to talk with him. Our resident expert on the issue of identity here in the Rabbit Room is Ron Block, whose posts and comments are fragrant with the hope of the new creation alive and available to each of us. ![]() The song is called “Remind Me Who I Am” and has an origin story that might interest Rabbit Roomers.įor the last few years my journey has circled around the idea of identity, where we find it, and why it matters. Today marks the release of the first radio single from my upcoming record, A Way To See In The Dark. For a moment at least, it silences the voice of fear that is always making a case for our unworthiness. To be highly regarded by somebody important to you: it’s heady and humbling at the same time. She replied, “Well, it’s that these amazing people think I’m good, too.” Backstage, she was asked why this was such an exciting and emotional moment for her. show “America’s Got Talent.” She told me about this eleven-year-old girl, small in stature and unassuming, who blew the celebrity judges away with her amazing performance and won their highest praise. “Remind Me You’re Here” explores the wrestling, the questions, and the abandoning of my need for answers in favor of the assurance that, whether an answer comes or not, God is with me.My mother recently told me about a moving moment from the T.V. ![]() The place where God meets with me is where healing happens. I am tempted to put my hope in answers, but in and of themselves they don’t satisfy my deepest need the way the sense of God being intimately here with me does. God’s presence so often quiets our questions, which must mean that this is what we desire most-more than an answer, more than reasons, we want to know and feel that God is present with us. Instead, He offers Himself.Īt the end of the story, Job says, “my ears had heard of you, but now my eyes have seen you…” And that seems to have been enough. ![]() When God shows up, he says plenty but never offers answers to their questions. I think of Job sitting in the wreckage of his life wrestling with his friends over the question of why it all happened, trying to make sense of it. The instinct to ask “why” runs deep and seems to have an energy all its own.īut tidy answers to life’s painful questions are few and far between, and even when we do get them they rarely bring the relief or healing we hoped they would. Maybe we hope that if we could only find the answer to “why” something happened we could restore order again by making sense out of the senseless disorder of our pain. When catastrophe strikes, we can’t help asking, “why did this happen?” The question keeps us awake at night and relentlessly follows us through our day. “Remind Me You’re Here”-the first song from “Order Disorder Reorder Part 2: Disorder” is out now. ![]()
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