Song of the Day #12: Never Gonna Dance Again

Today's SOTD was definitely inspired by my recent trip back to the islands...in particular, Nevis.

I know it's George Michael...George Michael in WHAM nonetheless...and it's corny and cheesy...but I don't care. It's very sentimental to me.

It was playing in the background, when I had a very memorable moment with someone special...on one of the holes of the Four Seasons golf course...under a bright, shining, full Caribbean moon, as the Windward winds swirled around the palms, and caressed us.

Every time I hear it...I'm instantly transported back to that night...moment...and him.



I thought of him a lot when I was back in Nevis this time.

He will always have a special place in my heart.

Always.

RESET: The Journey

We just wrapped "Week 4: Jesus' Love is Absurd," in RESET.

In Prompt 03, the challenge was learning how to ABIDE in Jesus.

And exactly how does one ABIDE?...

ABIDING= Following God's Commands + Receiving Continuously From God + Trusting in God's Promises (in Good Times and Bad)

The study must've really been on my mind, because I woke up this morning singing this song...



May Your voice be louder
May Your voice be clearer
Than all the others, than all the others

May Your face be dearer
May Your words be sweeter
Than all the others
Than all the others in my life

Please keep my eyes fixed on You
Please root my heart so deep in You
Keep me abiding, keep me abiding
Keep me abiding that I
Oh, that I might bear fruit

May Your presence be truer
May Your presence be nearer
Than all the others, than all the others

May Your light burn brighter
May Your love go deeper
Than all the others
Than all the others in my life

Song of the Day #10: Ricochet

Freakin amazing song and video...minus the taxidermy and animal carcasses.


Ricochet Video

Song of the Day #9: Gloomy Sunday

Okay, so it's not exactly Sunday...but the weather here in the Cintucky is cold, dreary, dark gray, windy, wet and gloomy.

This song has been playing in my head all day...



I don't know if me being born during a hurricane (David, '79), has something to do with it, but stormy, rainy, thundery weather makes me come alive. I feel so one with nature...with myself...and with God. It's kinda animalistic and innate in a way.

I love stormy weather the best and more than most. I absolutely adore it.

Sometimes, I feel like Dracula and want to dramatically shrink away behind my cape, when the winds and rain cease and the sun breaks through a stormy day.

It's the perfect weather to stay home, in PJs & fuzzy socks, cuddle up with the kitties, eat & drink, watch romantic movies, do a little reading here and there, dream of...and make love.

Song of the Day #8: Faster Kill Pussycat

Who knew Brittany Murphy could sing so well?!

Maybe she should've pursued singing over acting, for a more viable career...though she does play crazy extremely well...but I don't think that's acting...that's just reality for her.

But I digress...

I kill the treadmill with this song...at least for 3 minutes and 15 seconds!

Meow.

Song of the Day #7: Say

Boy. That John Mayer, I tell ya...

...sure is yummy...

My Life is in Your Hands

8 "Your hands shaped me and made me.
Will you now turn and destroy me?

9 Remember that you molded me like clay.
Will you now turn me to dust again?"

Job 10: 8-9 (New International Version)

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16 You turn things upside down,
as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!
Shall what is formed say to him who formed it,
"He did not make me?"
Can the pot say of the potter,
"He knows nothing?"

Isaiah 29:16 (New International Version)

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9 "Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker,
to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground.
Does the clay say to the potter,
'What are you making?'
Does your work say,
'He has no hands?'

Isaiah 45:9 (New International Version)

I will hold on HOLD ON - by Vineyard music

My times are in Your hands
I know I'll never understand
But I'll trust in You
Sometimes my heart grows cold
I'm sorry when I take control
How I'm needing You

Even when I fall
You help me stand
Even when I'm lost
You take my hand

I will hold on
I will hold on
I will hold on
Yes, I will trust in You

My life is in Your hands
You hold the key to who I am
And I'll trust in You
Sometimes my heart is stone
I'm sorry when I walk alone
How I'm needing You

Song of the Day #5: Never Gonna Give You Up

Since it's Rick Astley's 41st birthday, it's only fitting that today is the official day and reason to get RickRolled!!!



Why don't they make music like this anymore??!! Or videos??!! Those moves, the wardrobe, the lighting, the sets, the camera panning effects, the backup dancers/models, the pompadour! Someone please explain this to me!

Again, let the Friday dance party commence...

Song of the Day #4: Sabotage

Okay, okay, so I technically didn't wake up singing this...so sue me!

Perfect fodder to kick some trainer-butt in training! BOO-YAH!

Song of the Day #3: Ringa Ringa

Actually went to bed last night, dancing to and singing this song (yeah...Billy got booted after about 11p.m.)

Found myself, once again, waking today, with it in my head.



Happy first of the month!

Song of the Day #2: White Wedding

I guess my mind's on a Billy Idol kick. Not that I'm complaining or anything...

Woke up singing this.

Again...you're welcome.

Song of the Day #1: More, More, More!

Have you ever woken up singing/humming a song? I mean literally, as you woke from a deep REM sleep and as you slipped back into consciousness, a tune was already playing in your head and you were mouthing the lyrics?

Well, it happens to me. A lot. I don't know exactly when it started happening, but it definitely started sometime after I entered my twenties (~ nine years ago.)

Some days, the genre varies, I have woken up singing everything from Nine Inch Nails, to Johnny Cash, to Run D.M.C., to gospel hymns. It's wacky crazy.

And I don't think that anything really triggers the singing. Nothing from the previous day/night, any media influences, or any dreams that I've had. I just wake up singing random songs. And then for the rest of the day, the song's stuck in my head and all I do is think about/sing the song.

I'm a HUGE music junkie. At one point, I had more than 4,000 mp3 files on my old desktop...that I actually PAID for. If it weren't for a bad virus wiping out my hard drive...and me NOT backing up my data, I would've still had those files...and I prolly would have closer to 10,000 files today. Oh well, you live and you learn.

I'm sooo into music that I sometimes wonder if I missed my calling somehow. Please refer to #13, here.

But I digress...

This morning? I woke up singing this...



Let the Friday dance party commence.

You're welcome.

Good. God. Billy Idol is sexy.