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.
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