Donna Douglas really appreciates a good story. She feels so
strongly about this, that she goes around speaking about stories, inspiring
believers to think of how the Divine One has intersected their lives. It’s also
a book she’s written entitled God
Stories: They're So Amazing, Only God Could Make Them Happen. So, it wasn’t
really a surprise, when quizzed about how she feels about the song “He Still
Came” that she and Pam Thumb composed, that she eagerly answered in just a few
hours, ready to share this story. Hear what Donna says about the song in
her own words, some 23 years after she wrote its lyrics in 1990:
I wrote the lyric,
Pam (wrote) the perfectly crafted melody. The inspiration for the song came
solely from my inability to comprehend how that God the Son, would willingly
choose to leave all the glory of heaven to come to earth, knowing all that He
would endure and still come, just for me. It is unthinkable and unfathomable
the kind of love and compassion it took for that to occur. No matter how old I
become or how much more deeply I get to know and love my Savior, I will never
get over what He provided for me and how He did it. Donna Douglas Walchle
You can tell she still thinks God is amazing! It’s personal and
powerful for her, as any story should be, as the words she composed show. “…just
for me”, she says. When it’s sung, it draws the emotion from the believer, as when
an artist with just the right flick of the wrist creates singular,
unforgettable strokes on canvas. Perhaps that’s why she’s been able to write
over 200 songs, accessing that gift from Him, to reflect it back to the One who
gave it. Her friend Pam Thumb also has the gift from Him, so it must have been
a great moment when Donna and Pam merged their words and music in 1990. Their
collaboration reawakens for the believer the wonder of God descending (see Charles
Le Brun masterpiece reminding of this scene here). It’s something that none of
us would risk, as Donna admits when she calls it ‘unthinkable and unfathomable’.
Since God is all-knowing, what He did voluntarily
is staggering – He must have known what lay ahead, and yet, He came anyway. He still came. Thinking about that makes
the heart swell, doesn’t it? It sounds like she never wants to forget that fact,
nor the gratitude that accompanies it. Here’s how it plays out in Donna Douglas’
life: Meet others, hear their stories, tell new ones you’ve experienced. And,
see His hand in it all…then and now, and in what’s to come, too.
The source for the story is an e:mail contact this
SongScooper made with the composer on 6 March 2013. Thanks Donna!
See these pages for Donna Douglas and Pam Thum(b) information:
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