Music

Do you remember the song that was playing when.........

You danced with your crush in jr high/high school?
You looked into someone else's eyes and your heart flipped?
You had your first (or best) kiss?

Why is music so important to us? This question has been rolling around in my head for a while. To answer it, as best I can, I'm going to go back to the Bible study I just finished. It was over the Psalms, and as most people know, the Psalms were actually songs. It was not only a means of remembering, but as someone put it, music can express what your soul means, that mere words can't alone convey.

Music reaches deep down into my soul and releases those pent up emotions that I could never express in words alone. Something about the harmonies, melody, haunting, sweet, seductive, worshipful, joyous, melancholy, angry, confused, anxious, pensive. All those ranges of emotion used to convey different meaning to mere words.

Music has always been an important part of my life. For many years, I didn't sing, or play, and I lost part of myself. In the last few years, I've had opportunities to re-connect with that part of myself and start singing and playing again.

Recently, I've also started really enjoyed listening to scores from musicals. For the most part, my children don't enjoy watching musicals (although my daughters watched all of "Cats", which I couldn't stand). Sometimes I feel like I'd like my life to be set to music. There are definitely songs that perfectly describe my life.
I'm going to add this meme on here, just because it fits the topic. The rules are:
1. Open your music player
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Hit 'next' for each question on the list
4. Don't cheat or try to be cool, just put what song randomly comes up.


Opening Credits: Precious Love - Newsboys
Waking Up: Every Story is a love Story - Aida
First Day At School: I Can Do Better than That - The Last 5 years
Falling In Love: Joy - Newsboys
Breaking Up: Bandora's Box - Lysa Lynne
Prom: Don't Tell Me You Love Me - Night Ranger
Life is Good: Let the Kingdom Come - Whiteheart
Mental Breakdown: Jesus, Lover of My Soul - Wow worship Red Disc
Driving: Four in the Morning - Night Ranger
Flashback: Puppies everywhere - 101 Dalmations soundtrack (? don't ask me!) :)
Getting Back Together: Entertaining Angels - Newsboys
Wedding: Easy as Life - Aida
Paying the Dues: A Miracle Would Happen/When you came home to me - The last 5 years
The Night Before The War: Nothing but the best - Whiteheart
Final Battle: Bird on a wire - Out of the Grey
Moment of Triumph: Lifelines - Out of the Grey
Death Scene: Rosa Mystica - Kitaro
Funeral Song: Written in the Stars - Aida
End Credits: Make a Joyful noise - David Crowder

Interesting. :) Give it a try.