Saturdays Songs Link Up

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Saturday's Song is a Blog Hop where bloggers who love Christian music share the music that God uses to speak to them!  So, turn on your radio, Pandora, Jango, or pop in your favorite CD, and get your post ready for next week's Link Up!!

This goal of this Blog Hop 

is to broaden your view of

Christian music using a different

theme/challenge each week.

If you are a blogger who loves Christian music, join us in connecting with other bloggers and sharing our love of Christian music with the blogosphere!  Enjoy!!

This week's theme/challenge:  

ENCOURAGEMENT

I can remember times this last summer when I was just down, but God used this song to help me. Today I share it with you.  
Mandisa's Stronger

 

 

Next week's theme/challenge:

Your Favorite Christmas Song (any genre)
Get your post ready for next week's Link Up!!

What song has encouraged you this week?  Tell me all about it!

Let's get this Link Up Party started!
We would LOVE it if you linked up with a post about what song has encouraged you this week.

Saturday's Song Blog Hop Rules:

1. Write a post that follows the weekly theme/challenge.

2. Follow the host and hostesses via GFC.

3. Grab a button to put on your blog - the more the merrier!

4. Check out (and comment) other people's blogs.

5. Be blessed by all the sisters and brothers around the world!

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Announcing Saturday's Songs...a link up

I don't know about you, but sometimes I get tired of hearing the same songs on the radio over and over and over again.  Sometimes you just have to shake things up.

Here's a new one to add to your playlist.

Josh Garrels "Flood Waters"

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What I'm Listening To...It's a Journey

Tonight I finished the first episode of season five of Fringe.  If you're not familiar with this Fox series I'll give you some brief highlights.

Fringe is a sci-fi thriller.  After years of being locked away in an asylum  Dr. Walter Bishop is released to the care of his estranged genius son, Peter.  He is release for the sole purpose of ascertaining the reasons for several strange and unexplained world events.  Just as an example, entire buildings and towns disappear.  Why?  No one knows.

Now we're in the fifth season.  You can only imagine the craziness that's happening now.  J.J. Abrams is a genius, but that's really a different topic entirely.

The scene that brought this whole post to my mind occurred when Walter, the doctor, is being tortured by a mind reader, or observer,  for information.  In the background music the viewer hears classical music playing.  The Observer says, "You're trying to think of music?  You miss music....we tolerate it.  But it's merely tones, rhythms, and harmonic vibrations.  I don't understand."

Walter replies to the stall inquisitive Observer, "Mostly [music] amazes me.  Music helps you to shift perspective.  To see things differently if you need to."

"To see things like...hope?"

"Yeah, very much like that."

So...that was a long story, but I loved this scene.  You should watch the show.  It's available on through this link on Hulu.com.

Now, on to what I'm listening to now...the music or audio that gives me hope.

The Daily Audio Bible

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I listen to this podcast everyday and I love it.  I can listen to it in the car or when I'm putting my makeup on.  It really helps me to listen or read more of God's Word.  It's available for free download on iTunes.

Josh Garrels

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How can I sing Josh's praise...well, kinda.  A new friend of mine recommended this project to me.  I listen to the first note and instantly knew I was in love.  With the music, of course.

Bon Iver

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Do you need explanation needed?

Emerging Voices

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This project just takes me to the presence of God.  I'm thankful that I work out late at night because I'm sure it'd disturb my neighbors if they saw me running around the block beating the air or tears just running my face.  Maybe they'd be ok with it.  Maybe.

Well, that's pretty much it with the exception of Christmas music and Choral music by Eric Whitecare.  Oh no!...I love him too!  And Fun.'s Some Nights (the clean version).  And then my favorite song ever --Journey's Don't Stop Believing.  What is wrong with me?!?

Music--all kinds of music--just has this way of connecting the emotional dots for me.  Music gives me...hope.

What about you?  What are you listening to?

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