Have you ever wondered at how the weather can affect your mood? Your day?I have, and on mornings like today - clear, breezy and crispy cold - I often contemplate and even marvel at how one day rain may uplift me, and another day bog me down; how one day the sun may be the last thing I want to see, and on others, well, it doesn't really matter - the weather doesn't hold so much sway over my feelings. It's an amazing thing, and it reminds me of the smallness I am, and the big-ness that God is. ;)
Seriously: who am I, and who are we, to exert our free will over God's? I didn't include the subject of free will in my original set of questions, but perhaps I'll dig into it later.
In the mean time, please enjoy the playlist I've added this week. While you're at it, feel free to involve yourself in a couple new polls, as well. :)
On that note (haha, pun...anyway), it's equally amazing to me how music can also affect our moods, thoughts, feelings. We're often indifferent to its effects - maybe we're busy, or don't care - but other times, we truly get affected by what we're hearing, even feeling, even loving or hating it. One of the most humbling and awe-inspiring realizations I've experienced in the past few years is how, in all my finite ability, God will take whatever I shoot straight from my heart, whether it's real music or the harmony or dischord of my life, and consume it. Life is more than the whims of music and the weather: it's about worshipping the Father in all the rhythms, syncopations, harmonies and crescendoes of our days on Earth.
Don't you know that we are all living lives as the apples of God's eye, and that our ins and outs should glorify Him through it all? That He longs for us to worship our Creator with every blink of our precious eyes?
Amazing.
and Interesting.
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