By Steve
Thank God for country music
Most of us can sing along with Martina McBride in “I have been blessed”. And who could forget American Idol winner Carrie Underwood pleading “Jesus take the wheel?” One of my recent favorites is this suggestion from Rodney Atkins, “if you’re going through hell, keep on moving.” But as I process my journey of faith, Toby Keith is most helpful by declaring, “A little less talk and a lot more action.”
Maybe there comes a point where we would do well to talk less about belief and faith and prayer and the Bible and serving and...and act. Why not? Exercise faith this week. Pick up the Bible and read. Pray. Help out the next person who could use it.
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence. 1 John 3:18-19
These are my words (and a few from the Bible) found in our January 25 edition of The Loop. I mean these words but I have since thought of another song. No, not God bless Texas. Tim McGraw sings a song with the lyric, "live like you were dying." Why is it that we are most compelled to really live, at least according to the song, when we know we are dying.
If I ever find myself at a Karaoke party I'm going to sing this song, but change the lyric to "live like you were living." Of course this will make no sense in the context of the rest of the song, but I'll sing it like I mean it. And I actually will.
The morning alarm goes off. You wake up. Another full day to live. Create. Love. Work. Serve. Play. Explore. Contribute. Learn. Interact. Exercise. Eat. Live.
I propose we live like we are living, not like we are dying. Listen to some country music. And catch an episode or two of Nashville Star.
Thank God for country music
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