I am so drawn to songs about god, frequently a Christian god, like Sufjan Stevens’ “the Transfiguration” or the Innocence Mission’s “Small Planes”. Sometimes wonder how or why I feel so connected to these songs, since I am not Christian myself. I think I am more drawn to the underlying motivation behind faith, the striving, the desperate clinging to love or something better, sublime. Always reaching, changing, becoming. Gives me hope and it makes me feel less alone. Although so much of music about spiritual quests is so profoundly alone. Amazing how love and sacred feel the same to me. A real love poem, a real love song, is a spiritual song, a spiritual poem. M Ward's "Here comes the sun again" is just a love song for the sun but the feeling behind it makes it feel sacred.