By Currents News
A commencement address down south has gone viral: country singer Eric Church serenaded University of North Carolina graduates with his song “Carolina.”
The Carolina native and lifelong Tar Heel fan delivered a powerful message during his speech, using the metaphor of the six strings of life.
He explained that when all six strings are in tune, the chords can carry a broken person through the worst night of their life.
But if just one string is off, the whole chord unravels.
Church identified the first string — the low “E,” the thickest and foundational string — as faith.“The people who tend to their faith in ordinary seasons do not come undone in extraordinary ones,” he told the graduates. “They still hurt. They still sit in hospital waiting rooms asking unanswerable questions at 3 in the morning. But they have a foundation to return to.”“The world will try to untune this string through busyness, through slow accumulation of a full schedule, a full inbox, a full life,” Church continued. “Listen to me: Tend to your faith. Not just when you’re broken, but when you’re whole.”