Rich Mullins Music Part 2

The next song is called “Calling Out Your Name.” It is from the album
“The World As Best As I Remember It, Volume 1.” It was released in 1991. At the time, Rich was 36 years old, and had returned to college. From 1991 to 1995, he was enrolled at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, pursuing a B.A. in Music Education. He played French Horn in the band. He graduated in 1995 and received his teaching degree. He then moved to an Indian reservation in New Mexico where he taught music and art to local children.

Here are the lyrics:

Well the moon moved past Nebraska
And spilled laughter on them cold Dakota Hills
And angels danced on Jacob's stairs
Yeah, they danced on Jacob's stairs
There is this silence in the Badlands
And over Kansas the whole universe was stilled
By the whisper of a prayer, the whisper of a prayer

And the single hawk bursts into flight
And in the east the whole horizon is in flames
I feel the thunder in the sky I see the sky about to rain
And I hear the prairies calling out Your name

I can feel the earth tremble
Beneath the rumbling of the buffalo hooves
And the fury in the pheasant's wings
And there's fury in a pheasant's wings
It tells me the Lord is in His temple
And there is still a faith
That can make the mountains move
And a love that can make the heavens ring
And I've seen love make heaven ring

Where the sacred rivers meet
Beneath the shadow of the Keeper of the plains
I feel thunder in the sky I see the sky about to rain
And I hear the prairies calling out Your name

From the place where morning gathers
You can look sometimes forever 'til you see
What time may never know
What time may never know
How the Lord takes by its corners this old world
And shakes us forward and shakes us free
To run wild with the hope
To run wild with the hope

The hope that this thirst will not last long
That it will soon drown in the song not sung in vain
And I feel thunder in the sky I see the sky about to rain
And I hear the prairies calling out Your name

I think it's great how he shows the creation worshipping. The buffaloes, pheasants, the hawk, the sun and moon all acknowledge the Creator just by being. They don't have to do anything unusual, they just do what they were created to do.

What if it we recognized that is all God wants from us?