Day Eleven: Put My iPod on Shuffle and Write10 Songs that Pop Up

Day 11 of the 30 Day Writing Challenge


Day Eleven: Put My iPod on Shuffle and Write 10 Songs that Pop Up

First let me say that I had to find my iPod first, which goes to show you how often I listen to it. I found it on the kitchen tray where we keep odds and ends. The last time I used it was to mow the lawn. Yes, I really am a suburbanite!

1. Until the Whole World Hears - Casting Crowns
I'm a a big fan of Casting Crowns. I really like the lead singer's voice. This song in particular is great for when you want to sing aloud and with gusto. It's not too high or too low for us regular Joe's wanting to sing along.
2. My Savior, My God - Aaron Shust
This song has one of my favorite lines: That He should leave His place on high and come for sinful man to die, you count it strange so once did I, before I knew my Savior. Christianity doesn't make much sense until you've had an encounter. 
3. How He Loves - David Crowder Band
This song caught my ear by it's first line: He is jealous for me... God? Jealous? Isn't that Old Testament stuff? Then I thought about a movie I saw where a woman's husband unceremoniously dumps her for another woman and literally throws her out of the house. The woman is lamenting later to her mom that her husband was "her everything". Her mom snaps, "GOD is your everything. Don't you know He's a jealous God? He don't want no man before Him!"
4. Beautiful, Beautiful - Francesca Battistelli
I'm sure the words are meaningful but I don't even remember them except the chorus, which is "Beautiful, beautiful". I just like the melody!
5. All Along - Remedy Drive
It's not everything it seems, the world and its dreams. I wish I could remember that!
6. Love's Been Following You - Twila Paris
This song has a good solid beat to it and it's uplifting.
7. Yours - Steven Curtis Chapman
This song is about trusting God.
8. Unity - Trevor Hall
Matisyahu is featured in this song and I like them a lot. This song is great when you just want to get away from all the BS. I find this song particularly helpful when I'm bogging myself down with theology or religious discussions or anything that's keeping me from the bigger picture: I don't want to reason anymore about the One I love, I don't want to reason anymore about God above. I just want to melt away in all His grace, drift away to that sacred place where there's no more you and me, no more they and we, just unity. Plus it has a killer rhythm and beat!
9. Hero - Skillet
This song sounds like a mix of Evanescence and Three Days Grace or some rock band that sounds really gritty. Despite being a Christian rock band with a Christian song, this particular ditty was picked up by a NFL team and the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment). It's a good song to listen to when you just want to hear something LOUD and you want to drown out your thoughts.
10. If Ever Leave This World Alive - Flogging Molly
I have a knack for paying close attention to movie soundtracks. In fact, every year when I make a video of family photos and put music to the photos, I more often than not, put in songs from movies that I've seen recently. This is an example of one of those songs. I took it from the movie P.S. I Love You, a sad rom-com about a woman who loses her husband to cancer at the early age of 30. At one point in the movie she travels to Ireland where they met. This song and a couple of others like it in the movie are very Irish-jiggy (I don't think I can say that but you get what I'm saying). Bouncing good fun even though the lyrics are bit sad.

As you can see 90% of my songs are Christian with a smattering of secular music. It's not that I think secular music is evil or that it should be shunned. It's that Christian music speaks to me on a personal level. Someone once said that singing is like praying twice. Amen.