Maybe I can be interesting enough that someone will want to write a musical about me one day, too. HijackedĪnd so instead of spending our days subduing and having dominion under God and to His glory, we strive to make a name for ourselves, we build monuments to our own fame, we endeavor to write stories we hope will keep people talking about us and our contribution. That deep longing for transcendence is baked into our God-given DNA. We were created to do things that matter, important things, things that echo into eternity.
We were made to be co-creators, image-bearers, vice-regents of God almighty. We were created to subdue and have dominion. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” It’s actually part of our original design. To have our efforts live on long after we’re gone. It’s a longing all of us share in some way, isn’t it? Almost 250 years later, we’re still retelling his story in books, on monuments, and now 8 times a week at Richard Rogers Theater in New York City. Alexander Hamilton desperately wanted to matter in this life, and he leveraged all of his passion to make sure his name would be forever etched in our history books. The musical culminates with the moving song, “ Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?” It brings a haunting resolution to this chronicle of an ambitious orphan immigrant who willed himself to become one of our nation’s most influential founding fathers. Each listen clarifies more of the storyline and sucks me deeper into the humanity of our nation’s founding. I missed some of the incredible minutiae the first time I watched it, but the soundtrack has consistently accompanied our family car rides for the last 6 weeks. History, artistry, and pop-culture collide into two-and-a-half hours of surprisingly solid historical education and emotional storytelling. While the prude in me found the occasional salty language a bit unnecessary, you cannot deny the genius of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s masterpiece. We had heard the hype, but until Disney released it to the adulation of the COVID-quarantined masses, we didn’t really understand. Like most of the world, my family has become infatuated (perhaps mildly obsessed) with the musical Hamilton.
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