Music for different seasons

 

So… music has always meant a lot to me in every season. And there have been seasons I’ve had very different thoughts about whether one should listen to anything other than Christian music.  I saw this one documentary in 2009 called, They Sold their Souls for Rock and Roll. It detailed the history of rock and the dark side of it. I was in a manic state and broke all my secular CDs. I regretted that later. Then, I learned about how famous musicians have ties to freemasonry and other occult things.

But my mom is a music connoisseur and she’s had me play music appreciation the past two years. She picks a song I should know, could be from the 70s, could be from today. But, it’s been fun to listen to the stories in the music.

I heard one online preacher say recently that Christians should only listen to Christian music. Well… maybe this is reformed thinking coming out of me, but I’ve come to the conclusion that if something is beautiful, it brings God glory, because God gives what is beautiful to us, even if we don’t give Him the credit. So, there are many songs in secular culture I would stay away from, but there are also songs that tell stories that are worth listening to.

 

As far as seasons go… I like to write music myself, and I haven’t in a while, but I’ve been wanting to. I just, don’t make the time for it often, even though it’s something that brings me joy.  I have…this season for me includes taking care of my mom a lot, and working a little outside of the home. I dropped to only two days a week at my one job, and started to feel pressure to find a better paying opportunity because I want to do things that cost money. I really want to go on a missions trip to South Asia this fall. And next year, I’d love to go to Israel, Greece, and Turkey. Those aren’t cheap trips. But… part of me just wonders if I should enjoy a little free time and invest in some friendships. I’ve been complaining about not having friends the past few years, and now I have some budding friendships. So… that’s a good thing. Praise God!

 

So I’m not sure what this season will look like for long. But… tonight, I felt inspired. So, I wrote this song. It just kindof spilled out. It’s called, Seasons.

 

Times are always changing

Seasons come and go

Nothing ever stays the same

This much I know

This much I know

 

When we were young things were so different

We were to new to living life

Hearts burdened for what is eternal

Not old enough for nine to five

 

I saw you but I never knew

You struggled with loneliness too

 

We saw many friends stray from the Lord

But thank God we’ve lived

Long enough to see many restored

 

College was a whole new season

We both went our separate ways

God had lots He had to teach us

I reminisce about the good ole days

 

We made friends who helped refine us

As we stared our futures down

Many decisions helped define us

But we weren’t ready to head to hometown

 

God guided you to Chicago

My path wasn’t so straight

I’d planned on going overseas

But God said “No, Stace, wait.”

 

I wound up in Colorado Springs

At the Dale House Project so sweet

To meet all the kids and the staff

We cried and we laughed

We shared life together

So in every weather

And season we saw

The kids knew above all

That Jesus is always there

And He put us there to

Show them He cares

 

I know your mission year

Was special too

You told so many people

That “God loves you.”

 

God brought us back to Winston and Clemmons

Separately

But he knew your friendship

Would be a blessing to me

 

I watched you come alive

In your new role at Calvary

I couldn’t help but struggle

With my own internal envy

 

My heart wasn’t in the right place

My head wasn’t in a great space

 

And then I fell completely apart

When you came to my rescue

You stole my heart

 

In a strange brief way I came alive

But shortly after a part of me died

 

For many years I played the victim

Trapped up and bound in circumstance

Who knew it’d take ten years to wallow in depression

And a new dating coach to help me learn to take a chance

 

You’d moved on by then

That season I missed you friend

 

Now God has carried you so very far

And I’m no longer close to where you are

 

This is a season you have

With your family

It is no longer one that

Includes me

 

You were a bright light to me in the past

I may have come to peace with that at last

 

Forgive me if I want to still hang on

I’ll always hear you in a million songs

 

This is a season where I figure out

What my life’s meant to be all about

For our past I’m always grateful

I’ve learned that God is always able

He orders all our steps and all our ways

He holds our future every single day

 

Thank you Light for all that you’ve meant to me

I’ll always think of you as family

 

I’ve written you so many songs over the years

But this one has brought me to many tears

 

I look forward to the season we’re together again

It might be when we’re in heaven that we’ll once more be friends

And thankfully that season will never end

 

Times they are a changin

Seasons come and go

Nothing ever stays this same

This much I know

This much I know

 

 

 

 

You’ll always have part of my heart old friend. I love you.