Deeper Meanings....

I had awakened early---about 4:00---and was just lying in bed, letting my thoughts run free.  Somehow, an old song came into my consciousness. It was a song I only heard about three times in my life, and the last time I heard it was in 1965.

How I recall any of the words so many years later is one of those mysteries.  I liked the song very much.  The chorus was:

The sun always rises,
The sun always rises,
The sun always rises
Every morning of the year.

So when you feel you can't go on,
Just wake up, and with the dawn,
The sun always rises,
And the darkness disappears!

I repeated these words in my early morning stupor and thought about them.  And then, after all these years, a deeper, more meaningful meaning hit me---If you substitute the word "Son" for "sun", you have a wonderful parable of a poem.  Especially so since the Son rose after his nightfall on the cross just like the sun rises after night has run its course. 

As I lay there, I was amazed not only that I remembered the words after 45 years, but that I only now had connected the deeper meaning of the lyrics.

Then I was reminded of a moment a few years ago, when I was listening to an old cowboy song, "Cool, Clear, Water".  It had been a favorite of mine since childhood.  I always thought the song was about a thirsty cowboy and his horse out in the desert.  Well, it is and it isn't.  The deeper meaning, it occurred to me, was spiritual:

The shadows sway and seem to say
"Tonight we'll pray for water"...
Cool water.

And way up there He'll hear our prayer
And show us where there's water...
Cool, clear water.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ew3YCU9Jrg

In the stillness of the early morning, I began to wonder just how many things in life happen to us on a daily basis that have a much deeper meaning if we would only look and listen for it.

Here's another one, just off the top of my head:

Mary had a Little Lamb,
It's fleece was white as snow;
And everywhere that Mary went
Her Lamb was sure to go...

Can you think of common things in your life that have a much deeper meaning?