Tag: songs

  • The Song We Sing Shape Us

    The Song We Sing Shape Us

    My friend Justin had posted on Facebook this YouTube video of a song that I sang growing up. Here’s the video that he posted:  He states on his stutus update that we tend to pass on our prejudices through the songs that we teach our children. We sang this song…

  • Lyrics and Identity

    Lyrics and Identity

    Until this stuff happens to you, it’s kinda hard to grasp, but I recently heard an acoustic version of a song that I listened to hundreds of times in one sitting.  Listening to the song 20 years later, the lyrics mean something completely different at this point of my life,…

  • Bad Thinking

    When I was younger, I learned a song in church – The Countdown Song. Somewhere in Outer Space – God has prepared a place – for those who trust Him and obey – Jesus will come again – and though we don’t know when – the countdown’s getting lower every…

  • What the Land Says to You

    I recently heard a talk about how suburbanism is basically making our land ugly.  It is so ugly that it’s not worth fighting for.  We have taken our spaces and just made them functional and they are no longer aesthetically appealing. They said that in the country, you have nature.…