Whisper Your Love
When I’m small
When I’m helpless
When I’m scared to leave the place where I hide
When my head is loud
but full of nothing
Oh how I need the sound of your voice
Every time I cry
help me remember
Your love is so great you lift up my heavy heart
You break off the ropes that burn my skin
Your love is so great you set me in open fields
You whisper your love, you whisper your love
When I’m small
When I’m helpless
When I’ve believed all the lies I’ve been told
When I’m tangled up in lesser loves
Oh how I need the strength of your touch
Every time I cry
help me remember
by Laurie and Tim Thornton–Contact us for licensing, CCLI info, and more specific chords.
Tim and I wrote this song specifically for someone we know who has been living under the weight of things she feels as though she will never be able to overcome or defeat. It’s been years of her own wounds dictating in her mind who she is and what she’s worth. The enemy comes and lies to all of us–he sneaks in through anything he can and tries to separate us from the love of the Father and convince us that we are destined for nothing great. As children of God who are filled with his Holy Spirit, we know that our redemption, not only from death but also from what the enemy would have us believe about our lives, has already been won.
For more meditation on these themes, take a look at Psalm 57 and Psalm 18. We were reading these as we wrote this song.
Songwriting and recording notes: I have a love-hate relationship with this song. Over a year ago, we published a podcast with the informal just-arranged first version of it. Well, I don’t think we’ve played the song since that recording. We loved the song, we just didn’t feel like it did what we wanted it to. We knew it needed some changes, and although it would get in my head constantly, I couldn’t figure out where it needed to go. So now, one baby and a move to a different house later, we revisited it, leaning in the direction of a worship song–we cut out the end section, we changed the melody of the verses, we changed the lyrics to the second verse. Aaron Strumpel came to our house with an arsenal of preamps and mics and we recorded it live for the Simple Series. I finally feel like it’s done. Ha!!
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