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read between the lines
music heals truly, music does heal the soul. for the past few weeks, i've had new infusions of really good music drained into me and i've welcomed them with open arms. cos it really has been quite awhile since i've heard new entries to my current collection of music that are worth listening to. guess it's partly been budget, partly been deterioration of the music scene, and a few other things that have put off the arrival of new tunes to my ears, but it's been well worth the wait.the four albums i've been listening to lately that have helped for the better: 1) room for squares -- john mayer 2) exchange -- parousia 3) collide -- skillet 4) the beauty of simplicity -- telecast okay, so the odd one out's john mayer but what gets to me is his penchant for feel-good music. i don't relate to his lyrics for the most part (well i do in bits here and there, but in some abstract way) but his ability to handle the bass and accoustic in creating relaxing tunes has provided me good audiovisual imagery. in general, i hook onto one for a week and find the next on the following. seriously, when i think of it, these albums have been part of god's many indirect (or direct, depending on how you look at it) ways of ministering to me during my recent times of need. one can never underestimate the power of music. i'm not sure if i would have felt different and have been able to sustain it had my ears not heard the songs i needed to hear. for example, it was pretty hard to feel ungrateful or even the least bit wretched while listening to parousia's "exchange" and the song took on a whole new meaning when my grandad left for greener pastures. "it's an unfair exchangei guess to each his own, but i am a person who is very much affected by music. but er...it has to suit my tastes for it to have much of an effect. i've never really understood the local craze about certain overseas ccm bands playing what i would call "safe rock" because i've never felt a real kick out of listening to them, pardon me. but that's not to say i've totally recovered. the paradigm shift is still taking place as i (with god's enabling) evict my former self and put on the new self that is in Christ. |
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