A key to a door

A man sat thinking about how busy he could become and how hard he could end up trying to impress and please everyone with his efforts. To allow his thoughts to settle he picked up his favourite guitar and started picking a couple of chords and a line came:

When all is said and done, I want to hear you say, 'Well done!'

The man was reminded that his greatest desire was for God to say, "Well done!" when he finally stood before Him.

He finished the simple song and recorded it. When his wife came home he left her alone to hear it. He always plays his songs to her first. The man heard his wife laugh out loud, "What?!", said the man, "What's so funny??",

"Someone saying 'Well done!' ", she laughed, shaking her head...

The man left his wife to listen some more.

When he went back after a few minutes she was crying.
During that week an anniversary of the death of a friend had passed. The man's wife was remembering her friend's great hope that He would say, "Well done!" to her when she stood before Him, for she had known that soon she would die.
The man's wife misses her friend terribly. No matter what we say to each other, for a time the absolute of separation remains.

The man had not been thinking of this when he'd written the song and he was amazed again at the connectedness of God and His people.

So the simple song serves as a small key to a door that opens into a room where God can comfort the man's wife in her grieving.

Such is the wonder of song.

Here's the song, "When all is said and done"