How Deep a Love
today's podcaster: Cat, Lazy Creek ZookeeperOkay, well, I haven't played guitar in at least 15 years. That is to say, I taught myself back in junior high. But there is a story to the guitar, if not much of one to its owner's track record.
This guitar was my grandfather's. It's a Takamine C-128 from the late 1970s or early 80s, back when I was too little to know the date it was built. My father has the identical one. A quick walk around the internet will tell you they sell for around $200 USD on eBay, but the musicians who buy them say they play like a $1000 instrument.
Not under my fingers. However, it's still a beautiful instrument. Whenever I pick it up, I have to smile a little, because my grandfather never took to it. He preferred his old beater, a warp-necked thing that couldn't be tuned to itself, but to which his hands had become fitted over the years.
Guitars are a staple in my family. We grew up with them, and all of us know how to pluck a few chords and tunes. When I think guitar, I think of my childhood, my home, and the unique love and harmony that exists across the varying beliefs and perspectives among my loved ones.
In love for each other, we've chosen to stick by each other. Making the other person more important than yourself is what holds people together. My family's not perfect (whose is?), but this is something they're good at.
On that note, I decided to arrange Stuart Townend's How Deep the Father's Love For Us. I apologize for the beginnerish quality - maybe you'll be able to track my progress from this point on, if I get motivated to keep at it.
How deep the Father's love for us, how vast beyond all measure,
That He should give His only Son to make a wretch His treasure.....
How deep the pain of searing loss - the Father turns His face away
As wounds which mar the Chosen One bring many sons to glory.
It was my sin that held Him there until it was accomplished;
His dying breath has brought me life - I know that it is finished.
I will not boast in anything - no gifts, no power, no wisdom,
But I will boast in Jesus Christ, His death and resurrection.
Click to listen to How Deep The Father's Love For Us.
