Oh the Bliss!

It's well known by now that I am a lover of words. I love the way they look on people's lips and how they sound when they come out. If I'm not staring at people's eyes (windows to the soul) I'm staring at their mouths because words are my fave. They are gorgeous, stunningly powerful, and for me, when put with music they're life changing. Music is the backdrop of my life. When words alone fail to convey a truth I'm trying to learn or teach, music steps in and beautifully articulates and translates for me. (I think that's why I was such a fan of the mix-tape. When I couldn't explain how I was feeling it was so much easier to say, "hear listen to this.") Music gets me. And God gets music. How gracious was he to understand his children well enough to know that simple words would not always do justice to our thoughts and feelings! He put songs in our hearts to give us another way of glorifying him. Getting our eyes off of us and back whe...

I was introduced to All Sons and Daughters by the ever awesome Beckey B. and have pretty much fallen in love. I listen to their cd over and over and over, repeat, repeat, repeat... you get the picture. I recognize this is not everyone's type of music, but this song is breathtakingly beautiful because the words are. so. powerful. It's long, and slow, and you won't listen to the whole thing because I know you, and you don't plan on spending more than 1:16.2 minutes (that's 1 minute, 16 seconds and 2 milliseconds) reading a post. I know because I timed myself reading three of mine and averaged them out. :-) (That's not entirely true, I guessed the average because I hate math.) Back to my point... this song is like 6 times the length of time you're willing to spend here, BUT, just for me, because it's December and it's the month of giving, because the 6th is St.Nicholas Day and you want to observe it by giving the gift of time, listen to the entire song...