August Rush

Listen do you hear that… shut up, just listen…. …. Come on I’m not hearing things!... Listen very carefully…. Is that the sound of the subway, a field of tall green grass swaying with the wind, car horns in the city, an old farmer picking at his banjo, the roar of a garbage truck, or maybe the sound of children playing? Do you hear that?

Well for Freddie Highmore who plays “August” in the hit movie which is musically inspired, that sound that you have been listening for was his divine call. Well…the movie may not portray it as a divine call but nevertheless it is still a call. If you have not seen the movie then you need to, but first read this blog then go see it and you’ll know I am right. August Rush is about a boy who is deceptively removed from his parent’s right after birth and through his intense and keen ear for music, finds his way back to his parents.

But the way that his small keen ears hear this music reminds me of the way that our small ears hear God’s call from birth. God is calling us from birth whether we are willing to accept it or not. Unfortunately most of us will not accept it as our own. We see God as this far off tyrant figure that has many laws and never does anything for me. God has such a deep impact on our lives and sometimes our heads are so buried into that life we created… we don’t recognize God’s fingerprints all over it.

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations." Jeremiah 1:5

But I believe we can learn a lesson from that 12 year old music prodigy August Rush, because he heard his call and he did not stop fighting for who he believed in until he had them. August fought to be with his Mother and Father. Well so should we. The magical call that August had was to reconnect with his parents. Well we all have that call too, and it is your responsibility to do whatever it takes to reconnect with our Mother Mary and our loving heavenly Father, who beyond all else just wants you to turn to him and embrace him in your life. If you believe in him enough, and work hard enough to find him, you will not be let down. There is nothing that our Father will not forgive or forget. He loves you unconditionally, he loves you when you sin, he loves you when you fall, he loves you even when YOU don’t love YOU.

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” John 3:16