Go, Fill Your Soul.

Have you ever felt your soul physically fill up? Not like you were just happy, excited, or more content, but physically felt to your soul fill up?

For some people, they find it in nature. They go to the trees, mountains, and landscapes, and think about how God created each and every piece to be perfect and beautiful. Some people find it in quality time. It’s spending time with friends playing board games, or going out and seeing a movie where they can see God in how people act and react. Others see it in museums. Standing there as people walk by each piece of art, knowing the artist had to sit there and think about what was happening, consider which stroke to use with which brush, and which color to mix to create something that again physically filled their soul. For me, it’s in live music. Today I found myself sitting in a coffee shop listening to an acoustic band, almost in tears. Not because the music was sad, or I was in emotional place, but because each and every note I felt God there. how He created a single strum of a cord to touch my soul and fill me up. How He created music to be so intentional and so personal yet so diverse.

I think God gives us His little reminders. Moments in time where we just get to see Him in His full shape, and it brings us to tears. Where we can just see how intricate He made this world for us and how every piece gives glory to Him and represents beauty in every sense of the word.

“Where we can just see how intricate He made this world for us and how every piece gives glory to Him and represents beauty in every sense of the word.”

I’ve seen people light up at different things. I’ve seen people take breath of fresh air at the top of a mountain and standing in awe. I’ve seen people finish a book that they loved, after reading it for the 12th time, just look up and realize that it was still as good as the first time they read it. I’ve seen artist finish a song they wrote from their heart to their God or to their significant other, and just take a breath afterwards knowing what they had done was vulnerable and exposed them but was beautiful at the same time.

I don’t know how many moments you’ve had recently were you physically felt your soul fill up but if you don’t know what fills your soul, find out. Go to that mountain top and breathe the air in, go to that museum and just stare at the painting for hours as people pass by, and go to the coffee shop and just sit there and listen. Whatever fills your soul, go, do it, feel it, experience it, because our Creator made it for us to experience it, for us to love, and for us to find the beauty in. And because of that, I will continue to sit in those coffee shops with live music and be in awe of my God.