Well life is a crazy circus as always and I was feeling more B songs coming on... Enjoy!
Bagatelle #59 in A minor for the piano by Beethoven - technically called Fur Elise but I'm going with B! :) Play your cards right and I'll play this for you sometime...
Beast of Burden - Rolling Stones - this song is just groovy
Billie Jean - David Cood version (please ignore the video, it's super annoying... but plays the studio version which is amazing)
Breakable - Ingrid Michaelson - "Have you ever thought about what protects our hearts?" "We are so fragile... and we are just all breakable girls and boys...."
So I'm a little behind posting my ABC verses and songs of the week - so I will be updating you on the "B" of last week and the "C" of this week - a 2 for 1 special! Before getting to those I want to pontificate on a few things or share some things on my mind....
Life is full of highs and lows, opportunities and losses, new beginnings and endings. I continue to embrace the words of Ecclesiastes 3:1 - "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." It's hard to know what tomorrow will hold when dealing with things like; family you may soon have to say good bye to - though it was a life well lead, full of love and laughter and some heartache and tears, random senseless violence (kidnapping/torture/death) that has personally touched the life of a close friend, and an unexpected illness and vulnerability in someone that has always seemed so strong...
Things all come at once and it becomes hard to process... Thoughts of HEAVY things can consume and overwhelm if dealt with on their own, but when I enter into thoughts of "Seasons" and that with great sorrows can also come great joys, I can breathe - this too shall pass...
My life is full and I have been SO blessed and I'm SO thankful. I know I don't say it enough and it's easy for us all to focus on the things we don't have or the place we want to BE and not pause to enjoy the moments of today.
Yes maybe things aren't perfect - can anyone say that they are? But I constantly say to those around me - life is so often defined by perspective. You have heard the saying - one mans trash is another mans treasure? So true... Things that would have no value to some are priceless to others, things I'm dissatisfied with are goals others are trying to attain, but we are human and we are always searching for something more. Learning to be content is something I haven't quite mastered... not quite yet. But hey... life's a journey - not a destination! One other thing I wanted to mention - has anyone read this book? "365 Thank Yous: The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life"? I saw an episode on CBS Sunday Morning about Thank You notes and they spoke to the author John Kralik. According to the description on Amazon,
One recent December, at age 53, John Kralik found his life at a terrible, frightening low: his small law firm was failing; he was struggling through a painful second divorce; he had grown distant from his two older children and was afraid he might lose contact with his young daughter; he was living in a tiny apartment where he froze in the winter and baked in the summer; he was 40 pounds overweight; his girlfriend had just broken up with him; and overall, his dearest life dreams--including hopes of upholding idealistic legal principles and of becoming a judge--seemed to have slipped beyond his reach. Then, during a desperate walk in the hills on New Year's Day, John was struck by the belief that his life might become at least tolerable if, instead of focusing on what he didn't have, he could find some way to be grateful for what he had.
Inspired by a beautiful, simple note his ex-girlfriend had sent to thank him for his Christmas gift, John imagined that he might find a way to feel grateful by writing thank-you notes. To keep himself going, he set himself a goal--come what may--of writing 365 thank-you notes in the coming year.
One by one, day after day, he began to handwrite thank yous--for gifts or kindnesses he'd received from loved ones and coworkers, from past business associates and current foes, from college friends and doctors and store clerks and handymen and neighbors, and anyone, really, absolutely anyone, who'd done him a good turn, however large or small. Immediately after he'd sent his very first notes, significant and surprising benefits began to come John's way--from financial gain to true friendship, from weight loss to inner peace. While John wrote his notes, the economy collapsed, the bank across the street from his office failed, but thank-you note by thank-you note, John's whole life turned around.
Sounds pretty neat - I may check it out. I have a lot of great family, friends, and everyday people I come into contact with to be thankful for and I am - I just need to say it more!
To catch up here are the B and C versus and songs - enjoy...
B: Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. Acts 16:31 (KJV)
C: Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee; Psalm 55:22 (KJV)
I'm coming back with songs... there are too many great B and C songs - I may do one a day, a letter a week.
Here are the first B's (I'm a musical schizophrenic - FYI)
Linda Ronstad - Blue Bayou
Jace Everett - Bad Things (very Chris Issak)
Feels futuristic....
My theme song in Savannah, GA - not sure why but I walked downtown for miles with this jammin in my ipod on repeat.
