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Story Behind the Song

I’ve been in a weird place the last few years and this melody has been running through my mind for months. I feel like it was a gift to me and that God wanted me to settle in and listen with my heart while my fingers were busy at the piano.

It wasn’t until I started scoring the sheet music, however, that I was able to title it and put my finger on what I’ve been feeling. I think the way I can articulate it is that I’m learning to be settled in the unsettled and comfortable with ambiguity.

When I think of the word “reconcile”, my mind leans towards having things concise, packaged crisp and tied with a bow. It’s how my mind wants to feel. I’ve never been good with being in limbo or not knowing what comes next – and life just isn’t like that, even when I try to make it so.

Unreconciled is that space and place where we just simply don’t know the answers and where we sit while we wait, but I hope we can remember that it doesn’t mean there aren’t answers or that there isn’t hope or joy to be found.

Unreconciled can feel reconciled – even now – when we lean into our Savior, Jesus Christ and trust that He will make all things right and whole. We can give Him all that is unsettling, ambiguous and unknown and He will make us feel known, valid and settled in the meantime. He brings perspective and peace when we trust in Him.

So, this melody, after playing it at least one hundred times, has helped me find a place and space where I can begin to learn this lesson better.

The lesson is this: There is peace, joy and calm to be found even in uncertainty. Unreconciled isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s just a place we find ourselves sometimes in our journey.

If you feel “unreconciled” with life, I hope this melody will help to validate what you feel. I hope you also remember that all things can be made right through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. There is hope. So always hope.

“….And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” Revelation 21:4

XOXO

~ Sara