A Lesson in Tuning In

I had reason to fly to California this past week. I flew into Oakland airport one evening, From Oakland, I drove to my company's headquarters in San Ramon. As I drove out of the rental car company driveway, I turned on the radio in the rental car then did my usual "seek, seek, seek" until I could find an amenable radio station. Let me tell you, Northern CA is stuck in the 80's and 90's! I really couldn't find anything pleasing. I think I circled the FM dial two or three times. By this time, I'd made my way to the mountains. This is where I had an interesting experience.

I finally found a radio station, though not coming in strongly, and settled in for the rest of the drive (about 30 min) -- listening to Contemporary Christian Music (Strong Tower by Kutless). Well, in just a few minutes, I was losing that radio station and another radio station was tuning in. It was also a Christian radio station, but a much more traditional one. On air was a brilliant tenor singing "How Great Thou Art" with great passion. I was amazed that two radio stations (probably separated by the mountains) were transmitting on similar frequencies.

I loved it! Because they were both singing about the same thing... just in VERY different styles. As I drove up and down the mountains each radio station would take turns coming in stronger.

It made me think. It made me think about a couple of things:

- How each of us is transmitting our own praise and worship at the same time. And how God can pick up our frequencies, each and every one of ours, and listening intently and intimately and not missing a beat. How big is He that he can multitask to each of His children with the greatest of intimacy without even working at it???

- How each of us has our own, unique style and yet it is brilliant in its own regard. Because it's not about the style, it's about the content... who God is.

All for now,
Lisa

P.S. he he ... isn't it interesting that He took me to San Francisco to get a lesson in "tuning in" (i.e. it was the hippie Berkley professor Timothy Leary who coined the term "Turn on, tune in, drop out" in the 1960's)