Not quite sure why the title to an old Smashing Pumpkins B-Side came to mind when I sat down to begin my first blog post. I guess it always comes back to a song for me. Music finds its way into the weave of my every day life. I love how a song can take you back to an exact moment in your life. How it brings back the way you felt, the way something smelled, the person you were with. I was just thanking God today for the gift of being able to connect with Him in worship through music. Music is a powerful thing. It can freeze a moment forever, it can be in the background of an adventure, it can clarify, it can connect, it can make you move. Music makes you think, helps you feel, it can describe what you couldn't put in words yourself. Music, it can change the world. It has changed mine.
On my drive home from Costco today Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton came on the radio. It brought me right back to eleventh grade. The first time I ever heard that song was at a friends Christmas party. It was also the first party I had been to with a live DJ. Pretty fancy stuff. You couldn't help but feel there was magic in the air. There were even twinkly white Christmas lights for goodness sake. There is something to be said about young teenage love and trying to haphazardly apply the meaning of lyrics to how you are feeling that exact moment in time. I fell for the easy simplicity of a complex thing that Wonderful Tonight encompasses. All these years later it still gives me a flood of warmth, romantic thoughts and unsaid feelings. When giving the DJ for our wedding reception a list of songs we wanted in the mix that night this song definitely made my cut. Almost 13 years have passed since our wedding night. I still find myself learning more about love with each passing year. I can't help but wonder how much my view and understanding of love will change over the next 13 years. All I know is that I choose the very best partner for this crazy adventure. No one else could handle my brand of crazy like this man does.
In our dating days and early years of marriage we use to go to as many concerts as we could together. Somewhere along the line it went from seeing U2, Counting Crows, and Roger Waters, to The Wiggles Live in Concert. As we quickly added more children to our family the days of concert going fizzled out all together. But this year that began to change. We took the oldest 4 kids to Winter Jam 2013 for Katie's 7th Birthday up at the Portland Rose Garden. This tour had loads of our favorite Christian bands playing including David Crowder, 10th Ave North, and the Newsboys. There is just something to be said about live music. I forgot that truly unique feeling of thousands of people all singing the same song together at the top of their lungs. The feeling of connection with thousands of people coursing through your blood as the sound of the drum kit echoes in your heart. I can't help but wonder if this will even begin to touch the feeling of worship at the feet of the Lord in Heaven. When all the saints will sing in one voice in everlasting worship of the One True King. If this deep feeling of connectivity and longing at a rock concert can even begin to show us a taste of whats to come all I can say is bring it on!
This experience in November relighted a fire in me. This along with the fact that U2 will be releasing a new album this year since their last one back in 2009. I'm determined to reclaim the fun and adventure of attending concerts with my man. We are kicking off this renewed desire with our Valentine's gift to each other. We purchased Bruno Mars tickets for August and we are going to run from there. It's time to put the music back in our marriage adventures! We are dreaming up where to go see U2 when they tour. We want to go somewhere we have never been before for at least one of the times we see them on their upcoming tour. It's nice to bring back the spirit of adventure. Just us and thousands of others, gathering together in unity for a taste of eternity...
Wonderful Tonight Live
On my drive home from Costco today Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton came on the radio. It brought me right back to eleventh grade. The first time I ever heard that song was at a friends Christmas party. It was also the first party I had been to with a live DJ. Pretty fancy stuff. You couldn't help but feel there was magic in the air. There were even twinkly white Christmas lights for goodness sake. There is something to be said about young teenage love and trying to haphazardly apply the meaning of lyrics to how you are feeling that exact moment in time. I fell for the easy simplicity of a complex thing that Wonderful Tonight encompasses. All these years later it still gives me a flood of warmth, romantic thoughts and unsaid feelings. When giving the DJ for our wedding reception a list of songs we wanted in the mix that night this song definitely made my cut. Almost 13 years have passed since our wedding night. I still find myself learning more about love with each passing year. I can't help but wonder how much my view and understanding of love will change over the next 13 years. All I know is that I choose the very best partner for this crazy adventure. No one else could handle my brand of crazy like this man does.
In our dating days and early years of marriage we use to go to as many concerts as we could together. Somewhere along the line it went from seeing U2, Counting Crows, and Roger Waters, to The Wiggles Live in Concert. As we quickly added more children to our family the days of concert going fizzled out all together. But this year that began to change. We took the oldest 4 kids to Winter Jam 2013 for Katie's 7th Birthday up at the Portland Rose Garden. This tour had loads of our favorite Christian bands playing including David Crowder, 10th Ave North, and the Newsboys. There is just something to be said about live music. I forgot that truly unique feeling of thousands of people all singing the same song together at the top of their lungs. The feeling of connection with thousands of people coursing through your blood as the sound of the drum kit echoes in your heart. I can't help but wonder if this will even begin to touch the feeling of worship at the feet of the Lord in Heaven. When all the saints will sing in one voice in everlasting worship of the One True King. If this deep feeling of connectivity and longing at a rock concert can even begin to show us a taste of whats to come all I can say is bring it on!
This experience in November relighted a fire in me. This along with the fact that U2 will be releasing a new album this year since their last one back in 2009. I'm determined to reclaim the fun and adventure of attending concerts with my man. We are kicking off this renewed desire with our Valentine's gift to each other. We purchased Bruno Mars tickets for August and we are going to run from there. It's time to put the music back in our marriage adventures! We are dreaming up where to go see U2 when they tour. We want to go somewhere we have never been before for at least one of the times we see them on their upcoming tour. It's nice to bring back the spirit of adventure. Just us and thousands of others, gathering together in unity for a taste of eternity...
Wonderful Tonight Live
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