Let's get deep...

A couple of weeks ago at church, the message was about the different ways God speaks to you...through the Word, through other people, through simple things like nature and yes even through worldly things like music and movies, etc. Music...all kinds...is a BIG passion of mine and I think God uses music to speak to me. The other day I was listening to my iPod in the car...had it on shuffle and a song I hadn't heard in forever came on. Not a real spiritual song mind you, but it spoke to me anyway. (God has even used Tom Petty of all singers to speak to me once...do you remember that Jeanne??) It was a song by Creed (it's playing now) and one line just stood out and hit me like a ton of bricks. The line was "Life can hold you down if you're not looking up". That's sort of a no duh kind of thing for a christian...to know that when you're focused on yourself instead of God you're not happy...i know that...but at that moment my heart just had a "wow...that's deep" kind of moment. I sometimes struggle with "life" holding me down and I guess I needed to be reminded. And the thought has come back to me again and again for several days now to put it on the blog and since I'm not much of a "share my feelings" kind of person, I kept saying "Naaaaahhhh". But I'm finally sharing it so that if anyone else needed that "Wow" moment maybe this post will speak to them.