I turn to you like a flower leaning toward the sun.” I doubt that the overlap between Spice Girls fans and readers of TCT is very great. So let me give some background to this line. It is a refrain from a hit single in 2000 by former Spice Girl, Melanie C. The song is compelling: if you don't know it, you might go to YouTube. (All the lyrics are “G-rated,” and so is this video.)
Like other popular songs originally written to express human love, believers may easily apply this one to God. The other lines of the refrain, simple as they are, can be interpreted in a deep sense, as expressing devotion and yearning for conversion: “I turn to you. ‘Cos you're the only one. Who can turn me around, when I'm upside down. I turn to you.” Songs like this can be transferred to God (usually only in part and with care, of course), not only for the negative reason that human love can be idolatrous but also for the positive reason that the logic of all love tends to extravagant, unlimited statement.
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