HOPES & DREAMS 1: TO BE ALONE WITH YOU craig nason
Sufjan Stevens sings a line of desire on his album Illinoise: “I’d swim across Lake Michigan. I’d sell my shoes. I’d give my body to be back again…in the rest of the room. To be alone with you, to be alone with you…” More from this song later, but for now consider the longing of the lyric— Stevens shares that he would do irrational, even impossible things, to have a place in time with nothing but the object of his desire. I sense that this type of longing reflects our God’s desire to have union with us. But I’m often aware that this kind of hoping for intimacy with the father is lacking in me. Do I really want to be alone with God? Really? I decided to spend a night and day in the mountains a few weeks ago to find out…
