What do you ache for?...

There is a song that I heard first on an episode of Smallville (a very underated show, by the way) called “Ache” by James Carrington. It is an amazing song. So naturally I downloaded it on iTunes. But through subsequent listenings I have been really challenged by the heart of the message.

Basically, the chorus of the song simply repeats, “Did you know that I ache, did you know that I ache, did you know that I ache for you?”. I don’t know exactly what the motivation it was for the original rendering from the author, but I do know that there can be many different motivations for the listeners. And this is where I was challenged, and this is where I hope you can be challenged, as well.

So the only question is this: What do you ache for? Is there anything that pulls on your heart so much that it makes you ache? Is there a certain person that does this for you? A specific cause? A country? A mission? An injustice? A hope, a possibility, a dream? What makes your heart ache?

This isn’t just a desire or a wish. This isn’t simply a floundering hope or a possible obsession. I am talking about something that makes your heart ache – something that pulls on you so much that it consumes you. Your heart and your mind and your strength simply ache to follow this thing through or help this person or be involved with this certain something.

Do you have anything that you feel that strongly about? If you were singing that chorus: Do you know that I ache, do you know that I ache, do you know that I ache for you….. who would you be singing that to? What do you ache for?