These Times

I had these thoughts while driving this weekend and I'm going to try my best to regurgitate them into written form.  For some stupid reason my best thoughts are always while I'm driving and have no way to take anything but a mental note and that obviously isn't the best note taking around.

I was listening to my iTunes and SafetySuit's new song "Hard Times" came on.  It was a free download from iTunes a week or so ago and while I'd listened to it a time or two, I never really took the time to LISTEN to it.

I needed this song and songs like the ones I posted the other day right now.  I need them & their message.  I need them to be out there for others who need them & their message. 

That is what I love about music.  It soothes.  It heals.   It keeps you company.  It shines a light in the darkness.  I know not everyone connects to music but for those of us who do music helps.  Somehow it does all that I've mentioned and more.

I, also, realized that all of these songs (and more I haven't shared) have come at the exact time that I need them.  They have always come at the exact times that I've needed them.

I've always wondered how God chose to speak to people.  I never understood when people said you just have to listen.

I get it now.  I listen to music, it speaks to me.

Now I understand that he speaks to me through music, making sure the words and messages I needed are there when I need them.

Whether it be to cheer me up, to give a soundtrack to fun times, to get over a break up, or to morn the loss of a friend I have always had the music I've needed.

And sometimes having the music I've needed has given me the words I needed when I couldn't find words of my own.

"These Times" SafetySuit

"These Times"

These times will try hard to define me

And I’ll try to hold my head up high

But I’ve seen despair here from the inside

And it’s got a one track mind

And I have this feeling in my gut now

And I don’t know what it is I’ll find

Does anybody ever feel like

You’re always one step behind

Now I’m sitting alone here in my bed

I’m waiting for an answer I don’t know that I’ll get

I cannot stand to look in the mirror, I’m failing

I’m telling you these times are hard

But they will

And I know there’s someone out there somewhere

Who has it much worse than I do

But I have a dream inside, a perfect life

I’d give anything just to work

It’s like I’m only trying to dig my way out

Of all these things I can’t

And I am sitting alone here in my bed

I’m waiting for an answer I don’t know that I’ll get

I cannot stand to look in the mirror, I’m failing

I’m telling you these times are hard

But they will pass

They will pass

They will pass

These times are hard

But they will

These times will try hard to define me

But I will hold my head up high

Sitting alone here in my bed

I’m waiting for an answer I don’t know that I’ll get

I cannot stand to look in the mirror, I’m failing

I’m telling you these times are hard

But they will pass

And I know there’s a reason

I just keep hoping it won’t be long ’til I see it

And maybe if we throw up our hands and believe it

I’m telling you these times are hard

But they will pass

They will pass

They will pass

These times are hard

But they will pass