This week in Music I taught the fourth grade class the song "Lord You are More Precious than Silver" (I don't know the real name :)) except that I taught them the second verse because I felt like they might relate to it better.

Lord, Your love is higher than the mountains.
Lord, Your love is deeper than the seas.
Lord, Your love is wider than the oceans.
Nothing on this earth compares with You.

The fourth grade class is usually pretty rowdy, but on Thursday they were ridiculous. Sarah is their teacher and she had had a pretty hard day getting them to be quiet, so she wished me luck as she practically ran out of the classroom. So, instead of doing my usual warm-up songs, I used a breathing exercise to have them kind of calm down. That.... sort of worked... Most of the songs I teach the kids are upbeat and use lots of actions so that they're excited for Music but I decided that might not be a good choice for this day. I randomly remembered this song and thought I would try it out. This song is actually really special to me because (sorry in advance Zach!) when Zachary was a baby I used to sit in his room for hours rocking him (I'd maybe sometimes wake him up to rock him back to sleep :)) and I'd sing this song over and over again. It was always such a beautiful time singing in the dark to Jesus while rocking my baby brother. So, I decided to teach it to these kids and they loved it. A calmness fell over the room immediately. I had them do a few actions like lifting their hands way up for the mountains, dipping their arms way down for deep, and spreading their arms out wide for the ocean, but mostly they just sang from their hearts. A lot of the students had their eyes closed and THREE girls started crying. WOW. How precious to hear children worshipping God and to be able to join in. I had music with them the next day, and since it was a Friday I let them choose what songs they wanted to sing for the last half. I had some our usual songs brought up, but I had several kids (since they forget to listen to each other, they all just keep saying the same thing :)) raise their hand and say, "Can we sing the song of the Lord?". So we did.


I love my job!