The Whisper of Your Name (The Wyoming Song)

Wyoming is a wild land. A land where Ingrid and I  spent the first four years of ministry after an internship in Colorado Springs.  Wyoming is the place where we saw the Northern Lights on the night of our interview with the five church district we would serve for four years. And, Wyoming is a place where, after the wind stops howling, you can hear the Whisper of God's Name. 

Of course sometimes you even here His name in the howling wind, as Rich Mullins once penned: 

And I can hear the wild wind howling 

And I can feel it in my bones 

And I know that the howling will take me home 

Whether in howling wind, or the whispering silence of a starry night sky, or occasional Northern Lights over the Big Horn Mountains, the wild land of Wyoming might just be the last frontier in the lower forty-eight… might just be one of the best places to meet God, and... to hear the whisper of His name.

The Whisper of Your Name

© 1999 James Moon

verse 1

The stars are shining in Wyoming tonight,

as the antelope dance in the moonlight.

And earlier today the wind was howling on the plain

but now blows soft with the whisper of your name.

  

chorus

And I want to be still like the starry sky

I want to be filled with the whisper of your name

And I want to be still like the starry sky

I want to be filled with the whisper of your name

 

verse 2

As the moon makes its way across the desert sky,

above the bighorns the northern lights are shining bright

A quiet testimony of your power and your grace

and with the gentle winds they are whispering your name.

 

Bridge:

When the lightening strikes, when the thunders roll

When the storms of life, assail my soul