Monday Music

I had such a beautiful weekend. The beauty of it was that I didn't really do much of anything at all. My sister spent the weekend with me and we watched the Royal Wedding Friday, and went to the high school's chorus show on Saturday night. Now my grandparents are here with me until tomorrow, I love spending time with them. They are a lovely picture of what I want to be when I am 70+. Today is my second-to-last pre-cal class until I graduate! All that is left is the final next Monday. I officially graduate from high school in 26 days! Not that I'm counting or anything. Anyway, here is some amazing music for your Monday morning.
-taye

We sang this song in Church yesterday, and I had forgotten how much I liked it. It is literally the epitome of my prayers right now, I really want to strive to have Christ at the center of everything . . . especially my love, words, thoughts, and actions. We had some tornadoes this past Wednesday night/Thursday morning, and Eric, the worship leader, yesterday made an awesome point that really hit me. There were TONS of trees down from the storms and he said, just imagine a single tree in the middle of all the chaos and damage of the storm, and that one tree simple stood, not moving or changing, in the middle of it all. If all that chaos and rubble is our lives or our world, that one, unchanging, unfaltering, steadfast tree is Christ.

I have been obsessed with Florence + the Machine this past week --

Cosmic Love is one of her best.

Fix you . . . such a classic, one which I think I will never get tired of listening to. One of my contemporary pieces for the recital is to this song, and so I've been trying to find deeper meaning to help my performance and to give me a thought to grasp while I'm dancing it. I've thought of a lot, but one thought that has really stuck with me is when I think of the song from God's perspective. We are broken, and God heals us, "fixes" us in a way.

"And the Lord...healed the people." 2 Chronicles 3:20

"For He wounds, but He binds up; He shatters, but His hands heal." Job 5:18

". . .I cried to You for help and You have healed me." Psalm 30:2

"He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds." Psalm 147:3

"I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him." Isaiah 57:18

and I could quote many, many more verses just like these. He is so good, so constant, and loving us with His everlasting and unfailing love, even though we poorly deserve any of it, He gives it all to us.