07/18/2021 – “I Can Only Imagine” by Mercy Me
I’m breaking the M.O. of keeping the praise music to classical compositions. It seems like yesterday, it was back around 1994 when Mercy Me performed in at 1st Presbyterian Church in Houston in the newly contructed Jack Lancaster Center, in front of around 1,000 people. They were at that point a new Christian music group that was just starting to become known regionally and nationwide.
I have a Joni Earackson Totta inspirational witness testimonial story that relates to this song. Joni was a superb high school diving athlete when in 1967, she became a quadriplegic from a tragic diving accident. I recall Joni’s testimony that she was overwhelmed with sadness at Sunday church one morning when the congregation was called to the prayer kneelers, and she couldn’t join them. She calmed herself with the resolve to upon meeting Jesus in heaven, to fall on her knees at his feet. It just hit me as inspirational given her life circumstances.
Soli Deo Gloria!