Music...can't live without it...

I drove my son and some of his friends to his 7th grade basketball game yesterday and on the way they were singing..."Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey...I love that song...it got me started thinking that...

I love music...ALL kinds. Rock, Country, Rap, Gospel, Old, New...any I can listen to... I have so many memories...because of music...I can hear a song and it takes me back in time to a memory.

For example, the song "Witchy Woman" from the Eagles takes me here...when I was little we lived in Tuscaloosa, my dad drove a black Ford F150 truck with red interior. It had a bench seat and I would be riding right there beside my mom and dad. I think I was about 4 years old and I could not see over the dashboard but as we drove down McFarland Blvd I would look up and all I could see the was light posts and the sign to Druid City Hospital. It seemed like every time I heard that song that we were right there on the same place on the road every time.

Another memory was in 1985...I was in the 8th grade. The movie St. Elmo's Fire came out that summer...it was rated R but somehow me and all my friends managed to see it. I loved the soundtrack from the movie. Every Sunday afternoon I went to youth choir practice at church. It just so happened that we had a really cool choir director that loved the soundtrack too. He had an idea...he got the sheet music to the theme song and for several Sunday nights me and some of my friends that could play the piano would get together and play that song...we thought we were good...evidently we were OK because one Sunday night we played the song for the entire church during the service. Imagine that...we played the theme song from a rated R movie on Sunday night in a Baptist church...

Another memory...when I hear the song "Victory in Jesus" It takes me to the 2nd row on the left at Pine Grove Baptist Church. I am standing next to Big Mama and I can hear her singing "...beyond the crystal sea...". I can also hear my Aunt Linda singing from the little choir section behind the preacher.

All these memories and many more are pretty amazing to me. I wonder if my kids will have memories like mine. Who knows...I sure am glad that God created music...
T

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