Where we live, it takes about 45 minutes to get to work each day and an additional 45 minutes to get home in the evening. I have an extra special sidekick, my daughter Cate, who makes the trek with me each day. As any child would, she struggles in the car some days.
Since the time she could talk, she has loved music and singing. Any and all types of music, including a lot of Frozen songs. She enjoys sitting with her dad in the evening watching internet videos of people playing guitars and pianos. She even asked Santa for a pink guitar at Christmas last year – and got it!
Last week, while driving during one of our many long trips, a song from the band Rend Collective, My Lighthouse, came on the radio, and my eyes welled at the sight of Cate not only doing the motions she’d been taught, but also singing every word. Here is the chorus of the song if you don’t know it:
My lighthouse, my lighthouse. Shining in the darkness.
I will follow You. My lighthouse, my lighthouse.
I will trust the promise. You will carry me safe to shore.
When I asked where she’d learned it, she eagerly told me how Ms. Susan had taught it to her at Chapel and the Bible story that went with it. How grateful I am that Cate is able to learn about the love of God each week and how He is our Light, guiding us through dark and troubled waters.
Mandi Moon, Director, St. Luke’s Children’s Center
