Wait (hannah’s child)

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Behind the song

I wrote ‘Wait’ as part of my change from a promiscuous past to a willingness to do things God’s way.  Rather than ‘missing out’, I found that a new desire and romance started to become attached with waiting for something greater than the feelings of the moment.  It was a dawning of the fact that “it’s not missing out” but rather, fulfilling my deepest desires.

During this time, I had also enjoyed reading “Worth the Wait” by Jason Stevens, the Aussie Christian footballer, well known for his encouragement of people to save sex for marriage.  His book exposes the practical reality of God’s often ridiculed ‘rules’ and was a source of encouragement to me at that time to make the changes needed to do things God’s way.

The music and lyrics are not meant to be limited to sexual chemistry, however.  There is an intended ambiguity so that “Wait” can also be applied to all things that draw us away from God’s love in its full beauty.  In this interpretation, the ‘song letter’ changes from a human’s perspective to God’s perspective, urging us to look to His faithfulness as incentive to wait for His timing in all things.

To acknowledge the power and angst of forbidden and confusing desires, the double bass is bowed to sound like a serpent slithering across the guitar, whispering things that distract us from how brilliant the bigger picture is.