Let It Be

I have for the first season ever become an American Idol junkie. My pick was Brooke White. My favorite qualities of hers were her sincerity and raw honesty. How can you not love that?

She sang "Let It Be" on the 1st Beetles week and my husband teased me that I think "she" wrote the song :)

I must say at the risk of being a cheese this performance moved me. It spoke to my soul. With everything I have been learning on this journey in this post August 17th world it just really hit me. In particular the line, "in my times of trouble Mary Mother comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, Let It Be..."

I remember learning Christmas of the significance of Mary's words here. I remember learning how to really imagine culturally she was facing some pretty horrific consequences with her pregnancy but her response wasn't in the natural, she wasn't focused on what awful things could happen to her being a pregnant woman before being married... Her response was in FAITH. It hit me like it never has this Christmas. What an incredible response of faith. I loved learning that this past Christmas. I have heard the Christmas story SO many times growing up in the church and I never GOT that part. And, then after what has happened with Carter... I have tried so hard to understand it but it is not to be understood. I am not God. I took a lot of peace from, "Let It Be". I would sit up nights after the twins were born terrified I would lose them. And, this resopnse of faith is the example I needed. Let it be as you have said, what a measure of faith to live up to! I was inspired!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k68_t4yOQSQ&feature=related

I could write an entire other blog entry on her authenticity...