Music speaks to me like few other things do. It calms me, it wakes me up, it makes me sad, it makes me happy, it excites me, it encourages me,...well you get the picture.

I wanted to mention a couple of songs that have been recently meaningful to me.
If you read my earlier post about my birthday and the car accident, you know that I am a big fat scaredy cat. Yep, I am pretty much terrified of everything. Not something I am proud of, the Lord is definitely working on me! But after the car accident it got worse...after years of driving and reletively nothing to worry about, I was almost broadsided, and then taken out by someone with a severe case of road rage...all in a couple of weeks! I kinda felt like I was in Final Destination and Death was out to get me. It was scary. Both times I had my children with me and both times I was driving normally in my normal small town. Both times I was reduced to a shaking, crying basket case. I say all this to tell you that I was terrified to drive back down to Phoenix to get my new car a week or so later. I did not want to return to the windy, side of the mountain, drive where we had our previous accident. But there was no getting around it. Chase drove our borrowed van down to Phoenix, where we picked up my Suburban (!!!) met with some friends for dinner and drove home.
As we were approaching the drive up the mountain I was getting more and more anxious. Now I was driving the van, Chase was driving the suburban...and there was a HUGE lightening storm that was lighting up the mountains so beautifully that it was breathtaking...and for me a little terrifying. I begged asked Chase if we could maybe stay in the Valley for the night and go home the next day but he assured me we had nothing to worry about. So we continued on.
I got more and more anxious as we drove through the clouds and rain and lightening but was really glad to find a Christian radio station that I wasn't losing on our windy drive. The music was encouraging and helped to keep my mind off of things a little. But I was really stressed, and tense, and too scared to even pray. I know....I am a little psycho. Like I said, He is working on me! ;)
THEN, I started listening to a song that had been playing on the radio...I recognized the voice to be Steven Curtis Chapman's. And I realized this was a song he had written after the death of one of his daughters...
And I listened to the chorus:


Chorus


And it's all Yours God, Yours God
Everything is Yours
From the stars in the sky to
The depths of the ocean floor
And it's all Yours God, Yours God
Everything is Yours
You're the maker and keeper
Father and ruler of everything
It's all Yours


And I went on to hear the last verse...


New Verse 4

I’ve walked the valley of death’s shadow
So deep and dark that I could barely breathe
I’ve had to let go of more than I could bear
And questioned everything that I believe
But still even here in this great darkness
A comfort and hope come breaking through
As I can say in life or death
God we belong to you

Needless to say, I cried. And the phrase "We are Yours, Lord" became my mantra for the rest of the drive...and still when I get anxious and fearful. The cd it is on hadn't been released yet...and was on the radio again on my next drive to Phoenix! :) Isn't God good?

I love songs the remind me of God's truth and promises! Here are the rest of the words to that song, and you should look it up and listen to it. :)

Verse 1

I walk the streets of London
And notice in the faces passing by
Something that makes me stop and listen
My heart grows heavy with the cry
Where is the hope for London
You whisper and my heart begins to soar
As I'm reminded every street in London is Yours




Verse 2
I walk the dirt roads of Uganda
I see the scars that war has left behind
Hope like the sun is fading
And they're waiting for a cure no one can find
And I hear children's voices singing
Of a God who heals and rescues and restores
And I'm reminded that
Every child in Africa is Yours






Verse 3
And I walk the sidewalks of Nashville
Like Singapore Manila and Shanghai
I'm brushed by the beggar's hand
And the wealthy man
And everywhere I look I realize
That just like the streets of London
For every man and woman boy and girl
All of creation this is our Father's world


The other song that has been especially meaningful lately has been "Sing Me a Love Song" by BarlowGirl. I listen to it every chance I get.

The tension is thick in the air

Making it hard to see
I fear what is to come
And what will become of me.
I say a prayer help me not run away
Will You please hold me?






And sing me a love song again
Say the words that heal my heart
sing me a love song and then
Let Your words remind me who I am






You've never failed me before
Why do I feel betrayed
If I close my heart to You now
The darkness would have its way
I crave Your voice help me not fall away
Will You please hold me




And sing me a love song again

Say the words that heal my heart
sing me a love song and then
Let Your words remind me who I am




'Cause You are all I need
And all that I want is You with me
You are all I need
And all that I want is You with me




So sing me a love song again

Say the words that heal my heart
sing me a love song and then
Let Your words remind me who I am.

Love it! Go take a listen!!!