The Secret

Fact. Life is hard sometimes. Sometimes bad things happen - yes, even to good people. Sometimes we make mistakes. Sometimes things beyond our control can ruin a perfectly good day.

But every day is full of new possibilities - possibilities to dwell on the bad or think about the good.

Last night, hubs and I watched The Secret. It's crazy how much of it relates to Christian principles. So is "The Secret" to life Christianity? It could be for everyone. For me, it is. For me, there is no other way to live. The movie described our lives as being controlled by "the Universe" but Christians call this kind of "Universe", God. God is the One in control of my life. He is the powers that be.

The movie talked a lot about how we are to stay focused on positive things to have a positive life so "The Secret" can manifest itself in our lives. The rest is up to "the Universe" - or in my case, God. The thing that made most sense to me in this movie was how bad things happen because we're always thinking bad thoughts. If we start focusing on good thoughts for our life, then good things will happen. I really think there's some truth to that.

Think about what happens when you surround yourself with awful people. Your life starts to kind of suck and you always feel bad. But when you surround yourself with positive people, good things start happening and you're more joyful. Right? It's the same for our thoughts. Go through your day thinking about the positive things you want to happen in your life. Cut out the thoughts of why or how it won't work. Just focus on the fact that it will. The Universe God will take care of the how/when/etc. You just have to believe it'll happen.

Today, I tried to put this into practice with my own life. When I started to get upset at my children, I tried redirecting my thoughts to all the things I appreciate about them. When I started to get upset about my finances, I started to think about all of the times God provided for us no matter how much money there was wasn't in the bank. I think it all starts by appreciating your life and those in it. Stop thinking about what you don't have and appreciate the things you do. Focus on what you want in your life and don't question it ever happening.

And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:19 (NIV)

Moving On

I heard this song for the first time tonight and it reminds me so much of stuff I was thinking about while writing  this post the other day. Enjoy.

Timmy Curran - "Moving On"

I know you never meant to hurt me.
Never meant to make my
eyes water like they do now.
Forgive me if I don't come around.

I hope no one ever treats you
any less than what you deserve.

But don't you wait
cuz I'm moving on.
Don't you wait
cuz I'm moving on.

I never meant to hurt you.
I only tried to care for
all the troubles that I could see.
I gave you all I could be.
So please take this as a good bye.
I swear I'm dying inside for you.

But don't you wait
cuz I'm moving on.
No don't you wait
cuz I'm moving on.

Don't you wait
cuz I'm moving on.
don't you wait
cuz I'm moving on.

Bluegrass Lovin'

Garden & Gun magazine. Hands down - my favorite magazine subscription. It is a Southern lifestyle magazine that's all about the magic of the new South – the sporting culture, the food, the music, the art, the literature, the people, and the ideas.

In the issue I received yesterday, there was a huge article about Bluegrass Nation (I guess bluegrass bands are becoming quite popular - which makes me equally sad and happy - happy because I love bluegrass and sad because I don't want to see it overdone by people who shouldn't be doing it).

Hubs and I sat at the computer for about 2 hours looking up the bands listed in the article on youtube and watching all of their videos (they list 25 artists). There were a few bands I was less than thrilled about. However - there were quite a few that were uh-may-zing! I'm only going to share one of them with you tonight (the rest later). Trust me that the decision on which one to start with is a tough one. It's like choosing a favorite child. Impossible. So I wrote down my favorites, closed my eyes and pointed to the paper.

Introducing Pokey LaFarge: "LaLaBlues. You won't believe the voice that comes out of this dude's mouth!

My First Husband

My husband and I often joke about me having an ex-husband. He has an ex-wife that I talk to all of the time because of Addy (my stepdaughter). So we decided I should have an ex-husband. :)

I ended up choosing Ron Sexsmith, a musician whom I adore. We refer to him as my "first husband." I've always wanted to be Mrs. Sexsmith. lol If you know my married name, you might find that as funny as I do. He's from Canada which is great because I carried a Canadian accent for the longest time before moving back to Oklahoma. I'm also on Ron's email newsletter list and we laugh when I get those - pretending that my ex-husband wants me to buy his new album or he wants to show off and let me know he's touring. This has been an ongoing joke for years.

All jokes aside, I thought I would introduce you to my first husband, Ron Sexsmith.

Love You More

For my husband.......






I'm not a fan of this homemade video, but the song is ridiculously perfect.

Music

Music is really what my soul is made of. It's how life speaks to me and I how I speak about life. I can relate anything and everything back to a song. I've met very few people in this world who love and live for music as much as I do. When I do, it's unfortunate that we never have the same taste in music. lol

I do not (currently) play an instrument and I'm too tone deaf to sing. But music is my whole world. It feeds my soul and speaks to me in ways others cannot. Music has even become the instrument which God uses to speak to me. I was listening to either Air1 or KLove once and they were asking for listeners to call in with stories of the moment the perfect song came on the air. This is every day, every moment, for me.

I guess it's only natural that I've married someone who can sing well and play a little guitar too. Music is our love language.

Music would be that one thing I'd take to the deserted island. I don't survive well without music. I'm less inspired. I'm less expressive. I'm less.... me.


And on that note: Yay and YAY!

All Will Be Well

I just love this song! I'm really digging The Gabe Dixon Band. I heard this song (And The World Turned) on my Joshua Radin Pandora station and I just had to hear more. I found out they did the opening song, Find My Way, to the movie The Proposal. After an hour or so listening to them, I decided I love this song the best. It's just soooo.... me.