The children at home are getting very excited by the fact that everyone will be home for Thanksgiving. They are already making up teams and plotting pranks. Last night, in spite of the fact that we have never watched the show, we played American Idol rather spontaneously. All 6 of us at home stood up and sang and sometimes danced. Alex kept yelling out “disqualified.” He would make a brutal judge. I concentrated on Broadway standards while Benjamin walked the line with a string of Johnny Cash songs. Christopher chose arena songs that we all had to join in to make work in the living room. Most of our neighbors are deaf which probably came in handy during We Will Rock You. Andrew absolutely stunned us by singing Si Do Mhaimeo I. and Emily knew a lot of the words to I will Survive plus she can carry a tune. That was great family fun.

It is good to have a heart full of music. Personally, I know nothing about the technical side of music, can’t carry a tune and can’t reach the high notes but for some reason I have always been drawn into music. My grandmother was said to be able to play any tune on the piano after hearing it once. I believe it because Timothy can do the same thing.

There are strong opinions about what kind of music should be in church and I don’t want to touch on that at all, that is outside the boundaries and expertise of this blog but when it comes to praising the Lord in the home and car, it is no holds barred.

One good thing came out of our musical confusion while raising our older boys, they grew up listening to some great Christian music from the 70’s: Keith Green, Phil Keaggy, Mylon LeFevre (a bit too hard for me now), The Love Song*, Randy Stonehill** (His best friend from Venezuela even goes to our church.), and Michael Card.

Music is a connection to our spiritual heritage. It can help keep our hearts soft and remind us to praise the Lord and rejoice always.

Here are a few of my personal selections for praising the Lord. I don’t get any sort of renumeration for the list, it is just a sample of what we listen to sometimes.

I recently purchased these files from Sovereign Grace music. Terry Stauffer tells how the words to the songs comforted his family after their daughter Emily’s murder.

Come Weary Saints

The Valley of Vision

Here is the first iMix I have ever made. It didn’t pick up all the music from my list but that is just as well. It is long enough.

What did we do before You Tube?

*Two Hands

or how about…

Little Country Church on the edge of town…dododododododo.

**The Sky Is Falling

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