"He is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings the grass from the earth."
-2 Samuel 23:4
Happy Monday!
This morning I got to babysit two precious little boys, one was three and the other was four, and they were so cute and funny. I love little kids so much, probably because I still am one. They are such a beautiful picture of God's love for us and how He looks upon us as His children. This afternoon I get to go to ballet class, two ballet classes actually, and I could not be looking forward to it more, especially since it has been two weeks since I've danced. I'm continuing to take ballet and contemporary classes at my studio here in LaGrange for the next two weeks until I leave for Belhaven on the 19th. It will definitely be nice to have these last two weeks with the beautiful girls I've danced with all these years. Here's some music for your Monday, just a few songs I've been listening to a lot lately. Enjoy!
It's been a while since I have had a music post, and lately I have been on youtube everyday discovering some awesome music. Here is what I've found or been obsessed with lately.
-taye
Been OBSESSED with this one
With a lot of searching, I have a found a few not-so-heard-of songs by my favorite band Mumford and Sons, this one was my favorite.
During my boredom this weekend, I started playing around with some choreography to The Frames' song "Falling Slowly" and so I looked up some other stuff by the band, this one is great!
So, I am officially a college student now! It's insane to actually think that I am no longer in high school, and that in a few short months I will be living in a dorm in Jackson, Mississippi all on my own at college! Wow. God has been so faithful in bringing me to this point in my life and constantly teaching me and growing me in Him, even when I stray or sometimes run in the opposite direction of where I should be going. Here is some music for your Memorial Day Monday!
-taye
Caedmon's Call - some serious oldies, but I haven't listened to this song in a while and it just came on my iTunes a minute ago, it rings pretty true.
So, I have been obsessed with this song all week long (ha, that rhymes!) It's so awesome how "Christian" this song really is. . . "You were made to meet your Maker" Heck yes!
This was the song I chose for my graduation slideshow, I really haven't listened to it all that much, but when I was choosing a song, the lyrics to this one just really hit me and seemed like they hit the nail on the head when talking about getting to this point in my life:
"Making my life something so beautiful, beautiful"
It reminds me that I didn't get here alone, and that GOD is the One who has brought me here, not myself nor anyone else.
I am about ready for graduation...only twelve more days!!! Here is some music for you Monday.
-taye
I heard this song for the first time this morning...whoa.
Love Shane and Shane. I also love this song off their last CD. Everything is different, everything. It make me take a look at my own life and ask myself if EVERYTHING is DIFFERENT because of Christ or I'm I am continuing to live in disrespectful, indifferent manner.
I usually am not a big fan of Adele, all her songs start sounding the same after a while, but lately I’ve been listening to her more and I’m starting to actually like a few of her songs…this one, for example.
I'm sipping a chai tea latte while I write this, and I made an A on my math final this morning. My Monday is beginning pretty well I'd say. This is my last week of dance at my studio here in LaGrange; our recital is tomorrow, senior dinner is on Thursday, and competition is on Sunday, after that all I'm doing is summer classes and then I'll be off to college in August beginning a new start on dance. Anyway, here's some music for your Monday.
-taye
I am not really a big country music fan, but I do love two country groups/artists: Taylor Swift and Lady Antebellum. This is Lady A's newest song.
(Song starts at 18 seconds)
This song is really ringing true this weekend and the start of this week. I'm continually realizing my incredible need for Christ, as well as my need for prayer and time in the Word. I can clearly see the difference in my life, the way I speak and act toward others, when I am and when I am not consistantly doing these things and getting that time with God that is oh so necessary and vital to my life.
"When I cannot stand I'll fall on You"
We sing this one every now and then at Encounter (my church's contemporary service) it's repetetive, but passionate. I cannot help but cry out to the Lord sometimes to just fill me up with Himself, so that my life will look less like me and more like Him.
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." Psalm147:3
"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.
I just love Mondays like this (in a sarcastic tone). My alarm clock never went off this morning, so I had the joy of waking up after 8 with only ten minutes to make coffee and get dressed (please note the order of my priorities). But thankfully, my Peter Pan presentation went well and I ended up with a 98 for my final grade, plus there are only three more weeks left for math and then I GRADUATE!!! Plus it's only ten days until my birthday. . . I guess for me, being a pessimist is just too hard. Here's some music for your Monday.
-taye
Because of my British Lit final, this entire week my mind has been filled with thoughts of Neverland, fairies, and pirates. This is one of my favorite songs from the Peter Pan movie with real people in it.
This past week I had seen myself becoming just so indifferent really, to the cross, and it was really frustrating me, yet I could not make myself feel a desire for God or for worship really. Thursday, Gungor came to do a concert at my church and as I was just sitting there simply listening rather than actively worshipping, I just asked God to break me for Him. I love when God answers our prayers so suddenly, a few moments later, the band played this song call "Prodigal" and God simply broke my heart for the lack of anything I had been giving Him, and he "awakened" my soul in desire for Himself.
I love spring break. Today, I slept until 11:33, watched Gilmore Girls while drinking coffee, made super chocolaty chip scones and thoroughly cleaned mine and my mom's cars. It's times like this when I have nothing pressing that needs to get done that I get a lot of thinking done. Here are some thoughts.
-taye
Moment of Happiness
Sometimes, there are those sudden moments of complete happiness that spring upon me from out of no where. Right now is one of those moments. Nothing extremely significant or exciting has occurred today, it has been mostly a day of laziness: sleeping late and doing nothing productive. In these random happy moments there are a few things I want to do and yet I do not know which I want to do most:
Shout to God in joy with a giant smile stretched across my mouth
Stare up at the stars in awe and in wonder, with no particular thoughts to fill my mind
Make coffee (after all, that is always an excellent solution to any feeling)
Write a song. Or write a million songs that will all turn out to be the best ever (although most songs I ever write turn out horribly with no music to accompany them, so I typically do not go this route)
Just dance (no, not the Lady Gaga song) whether to music or not, I just want to let it all go and dance what I feel for once
And yet none of those actions seem to express the immenseness of this feeling of joy. The best part about it, however, is that it has no apparent cause. It is a feeling of utter freedom and yet one of a sense that I belong to something perfectly. One that I am loved; one that I am making a difference; one that I am fulfilling my purpose, even if I do not always know clearly everything that purpose includes. It is a feeling that I am exactly where I need to be, doing exactly what I need to be doing, and heading to exactly where I need to go. This moment of happiness is one of the best feelings in the entire world.
Today I'm resting in God's faithfulness, I've just kind of been struggling with having continuous joy this weekend and especially today. But He is faithful, even when I am so unfaithful. I'm resting in His promises. Here is some music for your Monday!
-taye
I love Debussy.
Listening to this song takes my mind back to January when I was at Passion . . .
I cannot wait until Passion 2012!
I love Taylor Swift . . . plus she has a pretty cool name.
I love music...so I've decided that every Monday, I'm going to culture you all a little on some music that I love. Enjoy!
-taye
Mumford and Sons is one of my favorite bands
I just discovered this guy today... amazing.
This came on at the Oscars last night, I ran into the room and started freaking out. I think my mom was worried about me for a minute there. I love Tangled.
