011 – Almost Daily Devotional – What Is In A Song?

(Updated Show Notes - May 2025)

Episode 011 – What’s in a Song?

Originally recorded: July 18, 2006

Part of the Almost Daily Devotional series

This episode is a little different.

I don’t teach. I don’t analyze.

I just… pause.

I was reminded of how easy it is to get caught up in thoughts, ideas, and content—especially when creating podcasts about faith. But sometimes, what’s needed most isn’t another thought.

It’s a song.

I read a short scripture from Psalm 30, and then I play a song I found called “Lead Us To You” by a band named WAHBA. It was one of those “Podsafe Music Network” tracks back in the early podcasting days.

The lyrics moved me. Still do.

If you’re feeling over-saturated with input, if your faith feels heady and heavy—this episode is an invitation back into the heart.

Let it wash over you.

✨ What I Believed Then

I believed that worship was a posture of gratitude and surrender.

I believed that music had the power to realign the soul.

I believed that pausing to sing (or listen to someone else sing) was just as sacred as teaching theology.

And I believed that sometimes, a song says what words cannot.

🌱 What I Believe Now

I still believe music is sacred.

But I no longer sing to a God outside myself.

I now sing from my union with God within.

I still believe in lifting my voice—but now, it’s not about pleasing or praising a distant deity.

It’s about aligning with the divine song already singing through me.

Worship, to me, is less about declaring who God is…

And more about remembering who I am.

And yet—this episode still carries that energy.

Presence. Openness. Surrender.

🔥 Why I’m Leaving This Episode in the Feed

Because it’s quiet.

Because it’s soft.

Because it was an early glimpse of the kind of space I now create more intentionally.

This episode doesn’t preach.

It invites.

May it invite you back to your own breath.

To your own voice.

To the Presence already within.

Cliff