Visions and Promises

While driving my sons home from their baseball game tonight, a storm was brewing over the New Mexico sky. The Sandia mountains were lit up by a reddish sunset light, while the mesa was covered in dark clouds and flashes of lightning. It was really quite breathtaking to see the contrasts in the sky.(More on that later)

Earlier in the day the whole family had been driving around Placitas with a real estate agent while touring homes and tromping over acreage. John has opened my eyes to the options this small town could offer us, even after I was sold on Corrales for so long.
Anyway, we did find two properties with great potential, and even a 5 acre plot of land with some unique benefits, too.

On one of the properties, John confided that he had had a dream a few years ago about it's road name...and he was amazed to be standing on that same road today. I loved the name, too, because it reminded me of one of my favorite birds of New Mexico.
And the house had tons of character..not a boring bone in it's entire structure. Very cool house....just needed some TLC. Interestingly enough is that we had closed our eyes to this property just from seeing the photo page online....doesn't have much 'curb appeal'. haha
But that is similar to what happened when we bought our house in South Carolina 7 years ago....we weren't even looking for a house...and that particular house was not even 'our style'. But in the end, that house was perfect for our family.

Anyway, there I go rambling on and on, when I really wanted to talk about the song that came on the radio as we drove home during the New Mexico storm that was brewing in the sky.

As I oohed and aahed over the sky, one of my favorite Christian songs came on, from a band called Kutless. It is called "Strong Tower".
The song was so perfect in this particular moment, because I truly "Got It". We had found a house today that sat directly below the Sandia Mountain...a mountain that has been my place of strength and spirituality, and a mountain that I've been yearning to come home to for 7 long years.
To live right below this powereful mountain would be so amazing for me...it just blows my mind!

Ok, so here are the lyrics and a link to a 'sample play' of this song:

Strong Tower

When I wonder through the desert
And I’m longing for my home
All my dreams have gone astray.
When I’m stranded in the valley
And I’m tired and all alone
It seems like I’ve lost my way

I go running to your mountain.
Where your mercy sets me free

You are my strong tower
Shelter over me,
beautiful and mighty,
everlasting king
You are my strong tower
Fortress when I’m weak
Your name is true and holy
And your face is all I see
Your face is all I see

In the middle of my darkness
In the midst of all my fear
You’re my refuge and my hope
When the storm of life is raging
And the thunder's all I hear
You speak softly to my soul
Now I’m running to your mountain
Where your mercy sets me free.
Kutless