Psalm 51

So my roommate pumped me full of coffee demanding that I stay up all night with her to do homework. I don't need to but I figured I'd keep her company, why not? So we pop in a movie and ignore the books and papers sprawled out all around us. Then, thirty minutes in she ditches me and goes to bed and I'm left alone, all jittery from the coffee with nothing to do; what a great friend she is. Well, I figured it's about time I get caught up on the reading in Lit240 anyway. But, despite how interesting I think Genesis is (that's right, I'm still in Genesis), I've found that I'm having trouble concentrating on it tonight. Ever since class earlier today, the clip of Psalm 51 Prof. Sexson played has been running in the back of my mind. I've read this passage previously multiple times but couldn't recall it immediately when he brought it up, so I was able to listen to the song with a clear mindset. It was so beautiful it gave me goosebumps. Now, I'm not about to pretend that I know anything about music (whether it's an old Christian chant or some raunchy bump n' grind mix). And perhaps that is what makes me so interested in this song - why did I react the way I did having known next to nothing about it?

So, I refreshed my memory on the chapter - a good one indeed. Gotta say, I'm a fan of forgiveness. And I just love the way it is written. "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me." (Psalm 51:10) The verbs David (or whoever the author may truly be) uses are just wonderful: "Purge me..." vs7, "...wash me..." vs2 & 7, "Create in me..." vs10, "Restore to me..." vs12, and "Deliver me..." vs14. I feel that you can really hear within his writing his desire to become clean and closer once more to God.

I wonder if I would hear this same message if I listened to the song again and could compare the two. Unfortunately, as hard as I have searched, I have not been able to find the song that was played in class. I've searched through everything from mainstream sites such as YouTube and iTunes all the way down to some little high schooler's blog. And yet, I have come up empty handed. Well except for this small clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVeTBqZwjPE anyway. (I'm pretty sure this is the same song). The problem here is that the user only posted a short two minutes of the song, and not even the part with the young boy. It makes me wonder why. What did he see in this small portion of the song that deems it more important than the rest? Or, perhaps he could only get his hands on two minutes worth, just as I now can only dig up two minutes. Anyways, if any of you find it, mind throwing me a line?