The awesome fullness of God's love is the inspiration expressed through Amanda Lindsey Cook's worship song Pieces. Please find a quiet place to meditate on this beautiful worship offering; among the most moving that I have heard.
Pieces - Amanda Lindsey Cook
As humans we fall short. We fail ourselves, we fail others. We can find that our love is incomplete. This sounds flippant, but it need not be, if we don't accept this as our reality. For gazing into God's love simultaneously enables us to grieve our own sins while inspiring us to a more complete love in the manner of God's love. And in God's love for us we realize that our failures need not be the end of our story. We worship a God who is ever picking us up and pulling is into a love that isn't partial, that isn't halting, but rather that comes near to us, is "proud to be seen with us." The apostle Paul speaks in truth when he elevates love above all spiritual gifts in 1 Corinthians 13. I'll not say more ... the song speaks for itself.
The recording of Pieces in the link above is from 2018. The studio recording of the song is the last track on Cook's 2015 Brave New World, which won the Dove Award for Inspirational Album of the Year. Pieces was nominated for Inspirational Recorded Song of the year. Cook is perhaps the most talented and influential Christian artist that you may not have heard of. She was Gospel Music Association Canada Female Vocalist of the Year four years in a row. Since joining the Bethel Music Collective in 2010, she has had a deep influence on the emergence and prominence of live worship in this decade.
