Spring Break

So, not sure this is a real Blog Post per se, but I thought I'd do it anyway. I've been in Florida for 4 days now. Enjoyed it. I've gotten a lot of reading done. Gotten to see God work through some peoples lives, and even in my own. Within the last week I got called by GM, had a Skype interview for a misisons job, and got a good recomendation for a church camp. So I might be able to pick between the three. Not sure which is best, and where God is leading. I've also been humble by the baseball coach's situation. He has used it look at who Christ is. This made me think of the verse (sorry I don't have time to look it up) that says no man is reater than if he does this, that he would lay down his life for his friends. Paul is telling us to live sacraficially for those around us. But there is something hidden in it I found. If paul says to lay down your life for your friend. Then Christ counts me worthy of being His friend. I know this is cheesy, but it really brings me to the suprised by joy moments. I mean, I like my friends a lot, and there is very little I wouldn't do for someone. and the closer a person is to me, the farther I am willing to go for them. but Christ, not in the moment, not in a rash decision, but deliberately chose us as close enough friends to Him, that He would go that far and lay His life down, and anything else he could for us. I like it, I like it alot...

Sad Songs They Say So Much

A friend of mine as this theory. She says that breakup songs are the only songs that show true emotions. If it is a love song then your just feel good and so input your happy feelings in the music. We have discussed this, and many other topics of love, a few times. But we just agree to disagree.
But can we relate this to worship music? My new favorite song is "How He Loves". This is a worship song in a sense. But the original author John Mark McMillan has a verse not heard by most people. This verse is about Marks friend who died in a tragic car accident. "I thought about you The day Stephen died, And you met me between my breaking, I know that I still love you God, Despite the agony, See people they want to tell me your cruel, But if Stephen could sing, He'd say its not true, Cause your good". The rest of the song to me brings more emotions from this. If Mark is able to still praise God while God just took his best friend away, why am I struggling while I have tons of friends, and a god family; but struggle with not being done with college and have a girl. The part "I don't have time to maintain there regrets" comes to mind.
Music and I have had a love hate relationship. I have "performed", and I use the term loosely, 3 times. Once just recorded, once for a skit at HU, and once for a jr. high summer camp. None of the three got standing ovations. I've always loved music. When I was young it took me about 3 times to hear a song before I knew the lyrics. Then when I got to jr. high and discovered both christian music and cd's at the same time, i decided not to buy any secular music. This has mostly lasted, but with a few bumps in the road. Most recently it leveled back out with me erasing most of my mp3 players memory of secular songs. It's just easier to focus on God when my mind has more songs about God, then it does about other things. Philippians 4:8 "if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things". This urges us to think about good things more than bad things.