{"id":4844,"date":"2012-08-11T10:10:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T17:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thedudeabides\/?p=4844"},"modified":"2015-03-10T10:03:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T17:03:06","slug":"mumford-sons-i-will-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thedudeabides\/2012\/08\/11\/mumford-sons-i-will-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumford & Sons: ‘I Will Wait’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Rarely \u2014 frankly never before, if my memory is correct \u2014 have I literally burst into tears upon hearing a song for the first time. But that is exactly what happened when I listened to Mumford & Sons<\/a>\u2018 new single, \u201cI Will Wait,\u201d this morning.<\/p>\n

This summer has been a difficult season for my family of origin. My parents are getting older and facing physical challenges that are testing all of our resolve and the core of our spirits. I\u2019ve been away from my own family in California for a month \u2014 the longest I\u2019ve ever been apart from my son. And it has been \u2026 the word \u201chard\u201d doesn\u2019t quite capture the feeling. Soul wrenching is closer.<\/p>\n

In the midst of a roiling sea of emotions, I find myself clinging to faith like a life raft, while simultaneously wondering desperately what God\u2019s up to in all of this tsouris<\/em>, as my rabbi friend might say.<\/p>\n

Perhaps that\u2019s why \u201cI Will Wait\u201d put a lump in my throat and filled my still-sleepy eyes with hot tears. The author Frederick Buechner says that we should pay careful attention to the things that bring about such reactions, because they are signs that the holy is drawing nigh.<\/p>\n

As listeners, we really can\u2019t be sure what a songwriter\u2019s intention was when he or she composed a song. While I don\u2019t know whether it is what Mumford & Sons intended, I hear \u201cI Will Wait\u201d as a prayer \u2014 waiting for clarity and meaning, for grace and peace that surpasses all understanding. Waiting on God.<\/p>\n

If the band\u2019s debut album and the tidbits of their biography that fans have learned \u2014 for instance, lead vocalist Marcus Mumford<\/a>\u2018s parents head the Vineyard Churches<\/a> in the United Kingdom \u2014 are any indication of what their spiritual predliections<\/a> might be, my interpretation of \u201cI Will Wait\u201d might not be too far off the mark.<\/p>\n

Whatever the true story or intentions of the band may be, \u201cI Will Wait\u201d was my prayer this morning when I heard the song for the first time on the radio as I drove to a cafe in the Connecticut village where I was raised to get a strong cup of coffee and a bowl of steel cut oatmeal to start my day. All three fortified my weary, twitterpated body and soul.<\/p>\n

Here is \u201cI Will Wait,\u201d the new single from Mumford & Sons\u2019 forthcoming album, Babel<\/a>, <\/em>which is due to drop on Sept. 25 (my birthday, because God, apparently, has a sense of occasion).<\/p>\n

http:\/\/youtu.be\/0kS8RTRi7HA<\/p>\n

And I came home<\/em><\/p>\n

Like a stone<\/p>\n

And I fell heavy into your arms<\/p>\n

These days of dust<\/p>\n

Which we\u2019ve known<\/p>\n

Will blow away with this new sun<\/p>\n

And I\u2019ll kneel down<\/p>\n

Wait for now<\/p>\n

And I\u2019ll kneel down<\/p>\n

Know my ground<\/p>\n

And I will wait, I will wait for you<\/p>\n

And I will wait, I will wait for you<\/p>\n

So break my step<\/p>\n

And relent<\/p>\n

You forgave and I won\u2019t forget<\/p>\n

Know what we\u2019ve seen<\/p>\n

And him with less<\/p>\n

Now in some way<\/p>\n

Shake the excess<\/p>\n

But I will wait, I will wait for you<\/p>\n

And I will wait, I will wait for you<\/p>\n

And I will wait, I will wait for you<\/p>\n

And I will wait, I will wait for you<\/p>\n

So I\u2019ll be bold<\/p>\n

As well as strong<\/p>\n

And use my head alongside my heart<\/p>\n

So take my flesh<\/p>\n

And fix my eyes<\/p>\n

That tethered mind free from the lies<\/p>\n

But I\u2019ll kneel down<\/p>\n

Wait for now<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll kneel down<\/p>\n

Know my ground<\/p>\n

Raise my hands<\/p>\n

Paint my spirit gold<\/p>\n

And bow my head<\/p>\n

Keep my heart slow<\/p>\n

Cause I will wait, I will wait for you<\/p>\n

And I will wait, I will wait for you<\/p>\n

And I will wait, I will wait for you<\/p>\n

And I will wait, I will wait for you<\/p>\n

Can I get an Amen?<\/p>\n

Cathleen Falsani<\/strong> is Web Editor and Director of New Media for <\/em>Sojourners<\/a>. Follow Cathleen on Twitter @GodGrrl. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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