LETS GET A LITTLE HEAVIER with my brothers music style!
My older brother has been doing music for years! He has done a lot of stuff on his own and has been in a few different bands. His current VICTORIA AWAKE is the group featured on this video. I greatly appreciate this kind of music just as much as the milder stuff that you will have noticed featured in this little project of mine, in earlier posts. It is fun, it is creative and it is his so I like it!
TTFN
I spent my Valentines evening with a girl friend. We both enjoy music and so we went to a performance by two local artists. I got a kick out of the looks I got when I told people I went out with a girlfriend instead of my man. I can be fine with him NOT being a holiday kinda guy and he can be fine with me going out that day, with out him:) You have to give marriages room to be different from what yours is and I am sure we are different in this area.
Oh truly enjoy local music and have great respect for local musicians! It is no easy thing to try to make it work in our province, perhaps even in our country. There is a wealth of great artists in our area but it seems to be really difficult to pack the house.
The audience was smaller but we where all really happy to hear them. To put it in my friends words ‘ Stellar heartwarming performance last night. You guys rocked Valentine’s for us. Thank you!’ One of my top life experiences is sitting in a cozy local haunt, listening to a singer song writer perform unplugged. Dim lights, great food and the essential good company of a friend or two.
Well my valentine, ‘C’, was grand company. Chatting, laughing, trying to finish a massive nacho platter together, frothy well brewed coffee and margarita Monday to boot!
Take the time to check out Jen Lane, link RIGHT HERE, and Smokekiller, linked RIGHT HERE. I have been singing along to my signed CD all day!
TTFN
Heard a song today that reminded me of my husband, he is one hardcore bicyclist and even does it all winter here on the prairies. The video was great for this song so click on this link RIGHT HERE and enjoy. The part about bike theft should specifically impress my husband as it is a real big deal for all bicyclists and it would be a dream to have it solved as it is in the video. Hope you enjoy this little indie groups song, I sure did.
TTFN
My children drive me to my knees to pray in two very different ways. In the days of joy and peace I feast my eye on the beautiful little things in this mommy world of mine and bending my knees in prayer I express thankfulness and amazement at all my blessings. Days of struggle and stress with my children send me falling to my knees in search of help and comfort.
It has been a week of loving so much it hurts. Struggles in each little child’s life surround me! They all need me at the same time and all reject my loving hand of discipline and guidance at the same time. It has been so tiring I fell asleep for four hours yesterday in the middle of the day!
Today I found the determination to enjoy the day in spite of it all. Put on some Carolyn Arends acoustic music. Finally put the cheep little chocolate bars away, that are so readily available thanks to the last ridiculous holiday, they where making me feel worse anyhow… Took the time and prepared a walnut salad, goat cheese on my favorite crackers and a little bubbly. Being my mothers daughter I put my bubbly in a pretty wine glass even though it wasn’t the real thing. I sat and ate and sipped and felt just special enough to get on with the good fight.
I plan to spend more time on my knees waiting for some clear guidance for each child, in hope that my parenting ability will not reach a limit and I will be thanking Jesus for the strength that I already feel welling up within me, the strength to keep loving even when it hurts.
TTFN
(I always enjoy dressing up for the symphony!)
Mirelle and I went and I have to admit I really wondered if she was going to be one of those artists who looses something live or one who is so much more live. Now having a full orchestra backing an artist up can make almost any music seem epic but even when she did her own thing with just her voice and the piano you could not help but keep saying ‘wow’ under your breath. Her voice is as poetic and artistic as her lyrics and her piano playing is full of beautiful strength.
The stage pretense of a regular woman with a friendly tough side made it hard to imagine this is the same person who writes such emotional songs or that she is obviously a person deeply moved by everything around her. Perhaps she stores up all her emotion to pour out in song… likely it is so, for her songs overflow in a positive way with the way our hearts really feel in heavy circumstances… Feelings and emotion so strong that it amazes me anyone can handle taking hold of them long enough to transform, with such perfect control, into a song.
Must see live everyone! It was a lovely evening out to be sure!
TTFN
I am still trying to take in all I was blessed with this morning at the ladies study I attend. A piece of it rang out in my heart as clear as a bell and so I want to share it with you. Through out my Christian walk I have known beyond a shadow of a doubt that is more about being in Jesus then doing for Jesus. There are ways to amerce ones self in the Lord deliberately and it must be undertaken daily to live successfully for the glory of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
The leader of our study was sharing different ways David was able to keep his heart soft toward God, through years of suffering and waiting. One of the ways was music. He was a very musical man and it was a direct connection between him and God. Singing out to the Lord is a way to deliberately amerce ones self in Jesus.
It is so hard to hold on to the ugly stuff that collects like thick sticky dust in ones heart when one forces ones self to sing. There in is the easy connection between singing and rejoicing made!
This message connected perfectly with something my kids had taught me months before. ‘Just sing Mommy. We like it when you sing. You are happy singing.’ was a comment from my daughter. ‘Sing with me!’ has been a common plea of hers. I have sang so little for so long I didn’t know where to start. Much to my surprise they had a song in mind and taught me my grandmothers favorite little chorus anew.
It isn’t much of a song, simple that is, but It has a way of coming easily to my mind and easily from my lips… no effort really… and I have started kick starting my day with this song and its sweet little reminder.
This is the day
This is the day
That the Lord has made
That the Lord has made
We will rejoice
We will rejoice
And be glad in it
And be glad in it
This is the day that the Lord has made
We will rejoice and be glad in it
This is the day
This is the day
That the Lord has made.
TTFN
How come the desire to run ahead causes me to desire the comfort of the past? The human condition has not changed since time began and I am not immune to it.
I have been letting myself go into a dark mood the last day or so and I wasn’t totally sure of the cause. Impatience is my newest suspicion.
We left our comfortable town because that was no longer where God wanted us. I have since let the idea that he has other plans for us, completely different from our own wash over me. So I thought I would be fine with it all now… now that I knew he had big things in store I was focused, well mostly focused, and for sure excited… but then nothing happened, or so I felt, for the last year, I developed impatience. After all, we left so lets start getting somewhere!
I started toying with the idea of how ‘things where better when’ … when we weren’t in line with God’s plan for our life… is that what I was thinking? Oh brother I am acting like the people of God when they got feed up and wanted to go back to Egypt! I honestly know there is no going back for me but… …
Thankfully the Lord never leaves me to my human conditions devices. Yesterday a speaker at a study I attended reminded me of Davids years of hiding from Saul and waiting for the kingdom he was already given by God. Those supposed wasted years where years of great learning. Our Lord is really good at giving us times to adjust, learn and grow into what is to come.
If I think about it really hard and stop being so worked up about what is ahead I realize we are growing here. When I stop thinking about the past with rose colored glasses I can see the good going on in the now.
I so appreciate the artistic minds, blessed by Christ, that turn these human experiences into word and song! It is no coincidence that these songs find me when I need to hear them… today the Spirit of the Lord lead me to a Sara Groves song. Click on the below link to read the whole thing.
Again it is time to get along with the truth and kick out the mood. And so I wait on the Lords timing.
TTFN
Feel free to click on the link to my husbands music page, it is on the side bar of my blog. He just recently remastered his two posted songs and the lullaby he wrote for our fourth child gets me every time. I find it so romantic that my man would put his artistic nature to work on something for me and my baby.
Just recently, with Baby Boy turning two, I have been struggling with missing my babies. I imagine them so warm and small in my arms again… I think about how soft and delicate they all where… That song is a bitter sweet blessing, sometimes feeling like to much to listen to. The lullaby brings me right back, in the blink of an eye, in the amount of time it takes to play and hear the first few notes, to when we brought our boy home and to that time when my man began composing the piece. It soothed our baby boy so much and even now it is helping to sooth me by gifting me with an easy passage back to memories of my babies.
TTFN
