hook, line and sinker

An amazing songwriter, performer, and all around God's man, has blown me away with a new song. Switchfoot's new The Shadow Proves the Sunshine invigorates me in a lifestyle worship sort of way. Let me kick some lyrics:

Sunshine, won't you be my mother
Sunshine, come and help me sing
My heart is darker than these oceans
My heart is frozen underneath

We are crooked souls trying to stay up straight,
Dry eyes in the pouring rain well
The shadow proves the sunshine
The shadow proves the sunshine

To scared little runaways
Hold fast to the break of day light where
The shadow proves the sunshine

Oh Lord, why did you forsake me?
Oh Lord, don't be far away away
Storm clouds gathering beside me
Please Lord, don't look the other way

Crooked souls trying to stay up straight
Dry eyes in the pouring rain well
The shadow proves the sunshine
The shadow proves the sunshine

To scared little runaways
Hold fast to the break of day light where
The shadow proves the sunshine
The shadow proves the sunshine

Yeah Yeah, shine on me
Yeah Yeah, shine on me
Yeah Yeah, shine on me
Yeah Yeah, shine on me
Shine on me

I read a snippet where Jon Foreman talks about screaming the words into a piano to get the strings to resonate on this track. The whole song reminds me of the hope we have in the most forgetable times. I think we often forget about how each person is in a different season in their life as we come together for corporate worship, but we are challenged to lead them into a place of thanks, praise, awe, wonder, amazement, etc. Leading those in the shadows, holding close to the break of daylight. It's brilliant. It's so many emotions inside trying to come out. This will be a worship song in my heart. Besides, I really like proofs, and proving sunshine just connects in this heart.