TRAVELS and INSPIRATION
[THE ENCOUNTER]
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Journey.
As I started college days, I never supposed that i was traveling as numerous as these. And as i walk, travel, ride for hours, the "within me" meets many inspirations whether it was sitting in a bus for hours with a piercing sun hovering above me, meeting strangers, or in a grocery stores, in discovering languages and old books, the concept of a new inspiration grows bigger. The new conviction gives me more happiness, peace, contentment and for the "most" element that i search for ages...hope.
Meeting with these kind of things in this world---which gave me an impact of the heart---is easy to find. It's like eating marshmalows. It is already given and we only have to accept it.
It's the LOVE...
, the love of the ONE.
I can still remember the time when i discover Him more in the travel that I wasn't expecting that it was going to be life changing. It was four years ago, when I attend a Summer Camp. Upon arriving at the place, I was very very dissapointed. First, It was a place that is very far....far from the vanities of the city. And what options do I have if the place has no electricity, shopping malls, internet and television? It was really really boring, but little did I know that my life is about to change.
Bang, three straight days I survived without those earthly things.
And there was it, the change. The inspiration in my travel. As I met many people and as I listen to their stories, I was changed that my heart bleeds and soars and at that moment, I said to mysef, "God, this is you..."
That's it. The simple, reluctant travel that truned out to be a "once-of-a-lifetime" encounter to a bigger inspiration that drives me throught the days...Isn't it amazing that as we venture in this life, there is someone that "finally" satisfies us. Inspiring us, that life has so much more to offer and it is GOD, who gives it all.
Today, my life is still at the process. Knowing, discovering, and listening like a songwriter that continues to crave for more music to discover more melodies and lyrics. This inspiration is getting wider, deeper, happier everyday when we long to let it be a "GOD-BASED" inspiration.
Travels, on the other hands is such a powerful tool for it. Now, my college days is full of travels which sometimes I did every weekends...and those inspirations can be found in every corner, in every tune, in everything. It is a fragment, that when you grab all the pieces, everything fits in a pefect harmony and balance.
Here is the song that I wrote, a piece that I grabbed in my travels:
THERE IS LOVE
Words and Music: Joshua Lamberte
Contemporary Worship
INTRO
C - D - G
You stood before me
When I'm lost
You gave me eyes to see
As I walk on this earth
I see your majesty
II
I could not contain
The blessings and help you stored for me
And when the troubles come
You set me high upon a rock
*PRE-CHORUS
Your love freely accepts me
Your grace surrounds my empty soul
I cried to you
You heard me Lord
*CHORUS
So I sing to you oh Lord
Together with my pain and brokenness
I'll raise my hands and worship you
All my days
I will hope and wait to you Lord
I will hope and wait to you Lord
BRIDGE:
THERE IS LOVE THAT MOVES US ALL
THERE IS LOVE THAT CONQUERS ALL
EVEN GRAVE AND MOUNTAINS CAN'T SOAR
IT'S YOUR LOVE FOREVERMORE
I wrote that song in a one boring night, my last night stay in our home---to prepare for another travel. I was broken that time that I didn't want to leave but it gave me no more options. I have to leave. Then I unintentionally grabbed my guitar and began strumming, uttering a prayer...an expression. Then there was it, another inspiration birthed from a travel.
I know that travels where inspirations are sought, will not always be as easy...as sleek and shiny as we always expected. But at the end, we always learned---sometimes being confused, questioning things, and at the end, being inspired.
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-JOSH
