Amazing. Play it loudly. Really loudly. Close your eyes. There is more, friends. See the city through your tears? It shines with His glorious face. Into the land of the living Black bleeds orange into blue I am coming to life, Light is breaking throughI can hear the bells in the city Across the ancient […]
God is teaching me so much about His grace and infinite mercy and kindness lately. Circumstances are not ideal and they rarely are for our own liking. As humans we always can think of something, diminutive or grandiose, worth tweaking that would presumably make circumstances just *that* much more pleasant for us, one way or […]
I have learned a new song this past week and I am rather ODing on it at this point. I really like ODing on songs of praise to our God. I don’t think I can quite do it often enough. Something tells me I won’t get bored at all with all the constant praise going […]
Do you pass on the music you love to your children? Or when you had children did you immediately stop listening to your favorite music and turn on kinder-tunes and nursery rhyme songs? Growing up I remember listening to Johnny Cash in the car with my parents, the Everly Brothers, the Beach Boys, The Messiah, […]
I love them. Okay… not all of them, but so many. They are so deep and rich and relevant for today. I like my share of modern worship music as well but the songs that bring the most comfort to my soul in just about any kind of hardship are old theologically robust hymns. I […]
I love this song. And I have always loved this particular version of this wonderful hymn, performed on At The Foot of the Cross; Clouds, Rain, Fire by the late Mark Heard. I looked for this all over the internet but I couldn’t find it anywhere so the only way I could figure out doing […]
is not mine. It’s pretty though isn’t it? I love how shiny it is. The piano. It’s a wonderful, amazing, beautiful instrument. I should know. I took lessons for five years as a child, which I’m sure you realize is not enough to warrant me saying, “I should know” about it. I’m lucky if I […]
And I know how you have been contemplating the worst, most insipid kind of torture you could possibly wreak upon yourself for 10 minutes and 35 seconds straight and that you were wanting to do just such a thing right. now. Before you click on this, just ask yourself, do I really have 10 minutes […]
I’m just mulling over this in my mind this morning. Thought I’d pass it on… Job 19: 23-27 23“Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! 24Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! 25For I know that my Redeemer lives, and […]
I love him. As an artist that is. I don’t want to run off with him and elope. He rocks… er… rocked. Do you know Harry Nilsson? Here are some of my favorites: Think About Your Troubles by Harry Nilsson <—This one is my favoritest. Nobody Cares About The Railroads Anymore by Harry Nilsson I […]
That goes in the category of things you never thought you’d say. Oh yeah, I heard similar phrases an awful lot (like, um… every day for 5 years straight) but it was about the piano. Something I never asked to play. Something I was never in love with the idea of. Something I pretty much […]
My darling husband has an unfortunate overbite. It was actually orthodontically repaired years and years ago thanks to the financial sacrifice that his parents made. Little did they know though that they were contributing to its return when they allowed him to purchase a guitar for himself when he was 15 years old. It was […]
Tonight my husband and I went to a Jars of Clay concert. What’s crazy is that we had a hard time deciding who to go see, Switchfoot or Jars of Clay because they were booked for the same evening, same time in the same building!! It was cruelty I tell you, knowing that there were […]
Do like Switchfoot? I do. They are great musicians and they write thought provoking lyrics that while saying less, they say more than many blatantly Christian music. They don’t spell out creeds or quote scripture very often but they make you think. They have the ability to get down to the details of life that […]
Yeah. Not doing so well on that blogging fast. So I’m declaring it Nabreakblofast. National Break the blogging fast. This Nabreakblofast is especially created so that I can tell you about my childhood dreams of becoming a famous singer. This news might come as a surprise even to my Mother. Then again, the walls of […]
Just watched a commercial for my favorite television show, House, and in the background is playing none other than my favorite song, Work, by Jars of Clay. I told you it was a good album! Nan
This is the voice behind the song, I can’t Take it In of the ending credits of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. She is amazingly talented.You must see this. Nan
Music crazes. I always drove my sister crazy when I was young. For one thing, we shared a room for many years and I would wake up cheerfully at 6 a.m. singing. She hated it. I was reminded frequently by my mother of the Proverb about how greeting your neighbor too cheerfully early in the […]
It’s My Man’s birthday in just less than a week. Exactly a week from now he will be closer to 40 than he is to 30. He’s turning 35 I have been bugging him for a couple of months about what he wants for his birthday and he has mentioned several things that he would […]
Who the heck is Derek Webb (scroll down on that link to hear samples of his music)? And why do I want to free him? Is he falsely accused and unjustly imprisoned in a dungeon somewhere? No. He’s not a prisoner anywhere. And despite the picture shown here, he is not a caged bird that […]
My second son has taken to a love for the stringed instruments. He loves Daddy’s guitar. He loves the guy at churh who plays the cello. He even loved his old off tune, two stringed, held together with string and carpenter glue, ukulele. The other day I was selling an item to our local children’s […]
Broken Sojourners 