Of Music and Lyrics

Guess what?! I finally (acidentally) found a website that does secular to christian comparisons!!!!!!! Woo Hoo!!! Isn't that awesome??? I don't know about all genres but Curt and I looked over the top 40 and the punk/metal/hardcore sections and they seem to be quite accurate, although the latter category was somewhat outdated. Most of them give you more than one choice of christian music to compare it to, so you're bound to find something that's still out there. I bet you're just itchin to know the website, huh? Here's a link:http://youthfire.com/media/compare/. Curt was having me search a song tonight. It took me 45 minutes to track it down, but I finally found it. Its a miracle, too, because the only thing he could tell me was that it was a female singer, and it was a secular song that they sometimes play on our christian station. Wow. Not much to go by there! He didn't even know any of the lyrics. He thought it sounded like she was singing "I pooped, I pooped my bed" but he said he knew that couldn't be right. So the next logical thing he thought was that the words were "I said, that's what I said", and I was like, "Well, that's too broad for me. I can't possibly search based on that. I need a subject of the song or I need to know the genre or who she sounds like, or at the very LEAST what she looks like!" LOL!! So, we narrowed it down to the fact that she sounds like Fergie. Good, we're getting somewhere. Then, he said she reminded him of the IPod Nano commercial. So, we googled that commercial and found out that the person who sang that commercial was a lady named "Feist". I guess she's from Canada. Well, I checked her out and he decided to pick (at random) one of her songs called My Moon My Man. And that was the one he was looking for! If you go to Rhapsody or whatever and listen to that song, its at the very end just after the instrumental part. And the correct lyrics are "My Moon The moom my man" repeated over and over. Whats truly hilarious about it is that the words "I pooped, I pooped my bed" fit! So now Curt wants someone to do a parody of the song but have it be about someone from a nursing home! Curt thinks Greg (aka Johnny Johnson) would do a great job at it! (In order to get this joke, you really HAVE to listen to the song...)

Am I missing the bigger picture here?

Maybe I put too much stake in people and their opinions of me. Maybe. Maybe I need to learn to let go more easily. I can understand why people would "zing" me if I had done something wrong, but it really hurts when you think someone's your friend and then all of a sudden, they cut you to the quick. I know I have issues. I am trying to deal with them. Blogging them helps. I tend to turn on worship music while blogging and writing and listening to music is very therapeutic for me. I just want to be loved. Needed. Wanted. Not just by my immediate family, but by people outside my family. Is that so wrong? I do not feel acceptance from most people I know. I feel like everyone tolerates me. And barely at that. So, I am seeking to change. Or maybe, in my seeking, God will reveal to me that maybe its more others than me that need to change. Maybe I'm not such a lousy person after all. I know that God loves me unconditionally and accepts me for who I am. But sometimes that isn't enough. I know its suppose to be. And I know humans can let you down. But for some reason, it seems like I get let down by others more than others get let down by the people around them. Ahh well. The music that I've selected to share here has spoken to my heart and God has put salve in the wounds through it (the music) once again. I knew that there was a reason I picked the songs I did!

How do we bless God?

An old praise and worship song popped into my head the other day. "Bless God, for all He's done, bless God for Christ His Son..." I can't find it on the internet or I would post it, but it got me to thinking, how do we bless God? Any thoughts on this? I hope to be able to study this and post my findings, but I just wanted to throw that out there for any of you who read this.