A song can be a prayer

Hi! My name is Emma, and I’m a singer-songwriter. I love to write songs because it helps me express qualities like love and joy that I’ve learned come from God. 

When I’m writing words to a song, I often get thoughts from God that spark ideas for what to write. When I’m writing, I usually think about how the story I tell can remind the listener of how wonderful they are. God made each of us so good—actually Godlike—and I really love to bring that out in my songs. 

Did you know that the Bible has songs in it? The book of Psalms is full of them. That’s because a psalm is a song. If you read the psalms, you’ll see that some of them are also prayers that helped the author when he was feeling sad or afraid or upset. He may have started out feeling bad, but as he praised God through his song, he felt better. Just as praising God through song helped him, it can help—and heal—us, too. 

Last fall, I wrote a song that I want to share with you. The message is really important to me, because when I was in elementary school, my classmates bullied me. I was very shy and didn’t know how to stick up for myself.

In Christian Science Sunday School, though, I’d learned that sometimes people need to be reminded what kindness is. The best way to do that is by expressing God’s love through our own actions, just like Jesus did. For me, being more loving helped me feel loved. 

As time went on, I became more confident. Even when the other kids weren’t kind, I remembered what I had learned in Sunday School and did my best to help them understand that they also had the ability to express kindness. I wrote this song for anyone who wants to pray about bullying. Here’s one part that, to me, is like a prayer:                 

You can listen to my song by going here: christianscience.com/aloneatschool. What kind of song would you write?