She Looks To The Sky

She Looks to the Sky, by Sherry Youngward has always been one of my favorite songs. I learned it was written after Sherry read an excerpt from Jonathon Edwards journals. Edwards wrote about Sarah Pierpoint, the woman who soon became his wife and the mother of their ten children. As I read what he had to say I was challenged in the deepest part of my soul. This type of intimacy comes only to those who devote all their heart, soul, mind, and strength to Jesus….and isn’t that what Jesus said was the most important command (Matthew 22:37-40)? I encourage you to linger over these words. Jesus will be back for us soon, will He find us faithful to that greatest command? Will He be able to look at our lives and say, “Well done my daughter, well done.” I am purposing to take His new mercy and recklessly abandon my heart to this kind of intimacy…want to join me?

Agape,

~Vicky

They say there is a young lady in New Haven who is beloved of that Almighty Being, who made and rules the world, and that there are certain seasons in which this Great Being, in some way or other invisible, comes to her and fills her mind with exceeding sweet delight, and that she hardly cares for anything except to meditate on Him – that she expects after a while to be received up where He is, to be raised up out of the world and caught up into heaven; being assured He loves her too well to let her remain at a distance from Him always. There she is to dwell with Him, and to be ravished with His love and delight forever. Therefore, if you present all the world before her, with the richest of its treasures, she disregards it and cares not for it, and is unmindful of any pain or affliction. She has a strange sweetness in her mind, and singular purity in her affections; is most just and conscientious in all her actions; and you could not persuade her to do anything wrong or sinful, if you would give her all the world, lest she should offend this great Being. She is of a wonderful sweetness, calmness and universal benevolence of mind; especially after those seasons in which this Great God has manifested Himself to her mind. She will sometimes go about from place to place, singing sweetly; and seems to be always of joy and pleasure; and no one knows for what. She loves to be alone, and to wander in the fields and on the mountains, and seems to have Someone Invisible always conversing with her. (Works 16, 789-790)

She Looks to the Sky, Sherry Youngward

They say she is loved by the Greatest of all who have walked the world.

He lives far away still she spends all her days

Content with only His words

She often walks alone, but never is she lonely

You can offer her anything her affections are all for Him only.

She looks to the sky as if He is coming down through the clouds up above

Tho’ no one has seen Him you cannot deny she is drenched with His love

She often walks alone, but never is she lonely

You can offer her anything her affections are all for Him only.

All the daylong she sings sweetly

She says He speaks to her mind

She’s only rich with affliction

Yet a bitter word you won’t find

She lives with assurance He loves her too deeply to let this distance remain

She’s brimming with longing for Him to come calling and sweep her away

She often walks alone, but never is she lonely

You can offer her anything her affections are all for Him only.

All the daylong she sings sweetly

She says He speaks to her mind

She’s only rich with affliction

Yet a bitter word you won’t find