30 Day Song Challenge--Day 6

A song that makes me laugh--This song makes me hoot.  The video makes it even better.  Please enjoy!

Cows with Guns--The Dead Kennedys

30 Day Song Challenge--Day 5

A song that makes me cry--I'll apologize from the get-go to those of you who dislike country music, and I think that a person could get a pancake breakfast's worth of maple sap from this song.  I love it though, and I'm a hot mess just listening to it to choose the link for this blog.  BTW, I don't have it on my iPod.  I can't see while I'm driving when I cry as hard as I do with this song (every stinking time I hear it, mind you!) She Misses Him on Sunday The Most by Diamond Rio

30 Day Song Challenge--Day 4

Song that makes me smile:  Audio Adrenaline's Big House.

I smile at the debate my DH and I always have when hearing it together. The song has a line about God having a big, big yard where we can play football.  I argue that they mean soccer, what the majority of the world calls football and the game you actually play with your feet.  He argues that it's talking about American football, a game that is misnamed IMHO since players carry the ball in their hands.

I smile wistfully, too, at the simplicity of the song. "All I know is you need love, and I've got a family. . . . Come and go with me to my Father's house." It cuts across ideologies, hang-ups, and anger and highlights the Father's love and desire for everyone to accept His love and hospitality.  I know for most people that Christianity isn't so simple.  It always has been for me.  God loves me, I want to be in heaven with Him, so what do I have to do for that to happen.   Believe that Jesus is Lord and that God raised him from the dead.  I guess this song makes me cry, too, for those who won't/can't believe that truth. 

30 Day Song Challenge--Day 3

The first song I ever heard--My Mom was always playing music.  The first song I remember hearing multiple times was "Drip, Drip, Drop, Little April Showers" from the Bambi soundtrack.  I was 4.  I don't have that on my iPod though, and since that is a stipulation I made for myself, sorry, no Bambi video.  The first song on my iPod I remember hearing is "Just the Two of Us" by Grover Washington, Jr.  I was 8 or 9 and the cool college guy next door played it all the time.  Our houses were a stones throw away, and we both kept our windows open.  I'm probably fortunate that's all I heard at that tender age. 

I have the straight-up Grover Washington, Jr. version and Will Smith's version that he sang about his son, Jaden.  Both are sweet.

30 Day Song Challenge--Day 2

The first song I ever heard by my favorite artist: Day 2 and already this list is giving me pause.  Who is my favorite artist?  Who do I always go back to? No idea! 

I enjoy Christian/Worship music.  When my heart is troubled, I head there. When I'm angry I head to metal music, the louder the better, until my equilibrium is reestablished.  I enjoy blues, jazz, rock n' roll, country (gasp!), rap, classical, pop, pretty much whatever.  I listen to any song (a least a bit of it) once.  And if it's music played by a friend, I'm an instant fan!  My husband, Steve, is a lot like that, too, although if you ask him, he'd say that his favorite artist is U2.  Okay, enough dilly dallying and shilly shallying.  I pick Muse as my favorite artist and Super Massive Black Hole as the first song I heard by them.

So, without further ado, Super Massive Black Hole by Muse!

30 Day Song Challenge--Day 1

I've been woefully lacking in blog posts this year.  FourSquare proved easier to log vacation activites, and I've not been knitting much.  Whoops, there go my blog ideas.

A Twitter friend @THESteveDeVries, posted this 30 Day Song Challenge on his blog.  I looked at the topics and thought, "This is doable." All the songs titles will come from my iPod.  I'll be uploading video (hopefully).  Enjoy and join along if you want!

Day 1--My Favorite Song

Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes

Self-sufficiency

Self-sufficiency. Merriam-Webster’s defines it as being able to maintain oneself or itself without outside aid; capable of providing for one's own needs.  I’ve spent my life in self-sufficiency and robbed myself of God’s sustaining grace, the kind of grace that God metes out for dealing with the trials and tribulations of life.   

Most huge things in life are not meant to be dealt with on one’s own.  Instead I am supposed to approach God’s throne with confidence, trust Him during the trial, that the trial has purpose and meaning and that it will bring maturity as He says it will instead of shutting down and not allowing the pain to enter.   

Shutting down makes one numb.  I woke up this morning, and my one thought was that I was numb.  I’m not feeling the pain of my marriage to a wonderful, supportive husband who I will never give up but who doesn’t understand me like I really want to be understood (which hurts although I believe it to be typical), the pain of dealing with two physically needy parents, the pain of not having and, more and more, never having children of my own, even the old pains of having to leave all my friends after 6th grade or further back of my Dad leaving me and my Mom.   

I’m tired of my self-sufficiency.  Hebrews 4:16 says, “Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.”  James 1:2 -4 says “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.  Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”  

 So come, pain, wrack my heart with your sharpness during these my trials, but also come, Lord Jesus, send your grace to support me in my trials and bring the perseverance and maturity that You long for me to develop.  And thank you for the  timely sermon from McLean Bible Church’s online church this morning along with the music that softened my heart to listen.