An Encouraging Song

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Hope everyone is well here. Posting these lyrics, not necessarily because of the corona stuff, but just as general encouragement. I've been going through "some things" lately and this song spoke a bit to me. The lyrics, as these things go, are a bit on the evie side, but the sentiment is fine with me. That's a good thing about song lyrics: most of the ones that come from churchian perspectives we can use since the lyrics often don't get very explicit with their churchian-ness.

I may be posting more music because I've been firing up my Spotify all day while working from home.

Ivoryline - With the Daylight

For now you will deal with heartache
And for now, you will face some pain
But now, release all of your buried grief
You don't know how, inside it lies your healing

Letting grace make a way
Letting love take a place inside your heart now
You don't have to grasp
You just have to ask and peace will find you out

Though grief is heavy tonight
Joy will break out with the daylight

Even now, you are being restored
And for now, you don't fully understand
Even now your whole life's being fought for
By the one who calls himself "I Am"

Letting grace make a way
Letting love take a place inside your heart now
You don't have to grasp
You just have to ask and peace will find you out

Though grief is heavy tonight
Joy will break out with the daylight

All, all over the world
Darkness is pierced by light
All over the world, all over the world
Darkness succumbs to light

Letting grace make a way
Letting love take a place inside your heart now
You don't have to grasp
You just have to ask and peace will find you out

Your heart feels it now
Though grief is heavy tonight
Joy will break out with the daylight
You heart feels it now

[Ed Hurst]

Good share, but it reminds me of the standard comments about differences in generations regarding taste in music.

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Good share, but it reminds me of the standard comments about differences in generations regarding taste in music.

I get you. This stuff is a tad bit after my time, but I like to keep a pulse check on where things are.

The Nashville/CCM sound was contemporary with my upbringing, but it was nearly a completely different scene than what I was involved in, regardless of spiritual beliefs. Sometimes they intersected.

[Ed Hurst]

It seems odd to me even that at some point I just didn't want to hear the latest stuff coming out in CCM. I guess it hit me sometime shortly before the turn of the millennium. Suddenly, I just didn't care any more. I turned off the local contemporary Christian radio station and that was the end of it.

[IainH]

I'm still listening to "devil music". Currently I'm alternating between R.E.M. "the end of the world as we know it" and AC/DC Powerage, Bon Scott's best. Some of the Brian Johnson era stuff is really good but, I came of age with Bon.
Sacred Music:
   I like the old timey songs and hymns that my Dad would sing while he was working on stuff and not thinking about what he was singing. Those unguarded moments revealed the heart of the man. Also; The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion by William Walker. It was shape notes and if you were quiet, you could crack the door leading to the basement at my Grandparents and listen to Grandpa play piano and sing. I guess that's why I have a fondness for the old time stuff. To me contemporary sounds like an imitation of country and pop although, Southern Gospel is okay depending on who is doing, Crowns of Light, you won't find them they are an a capella quartet made up of old black dudes. The bass singer will beat box the bass lines, they bless me.

[Ed Hurst]

I think the moment I mentioned above was when I decided that "Devil Music" was no such thing. There is some out there, but not everything so labeled by church folks is justified. And I'm a big fan of hymns; we still use hymnals in our home worship. It's good, comforting stuff that helps us cope.

[IainH]

I think the moment I mentioned above was when I decided that "Devil Music" was no such thing. There is some out there, but not everything so labeled by church folks is justified. And I'm a big fan of hymns; we still use hymnals in our home worship. It's good, comforting stuff that helps us cope.

That's why it's in quotation marks, I don't hear that anymore, the old timers are gone. I liked the old timers so, it tongue in cheek and as a memorial of sorts. Those who are old timers now, grew up with Rock n Roll. When my grandfather was young, radio was high technology and he always had a radio. When TV came out, the antenna was the "devil's pitchfork" and he wouldn't stay in a room with one on. He didn't scold, he just walked out. I do recall hearing a local TV preacher calling the large satellite dishes of the 80's a "devil's dishpan".