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Songwriting, school, stuff

visioncgbc | January 03, 2008 13:05

Yesterday I talked to two of my closest friends who are songwriters.  I've roomed with both of them at Write About Jesus, basically without even knowing them first.  But ANYWAY, it was kind of weird because I prayed for both of them specifically yesterday and then they called me.  So, I know it was sort of divine intervention that we talked.  But we sort of all three were in the same boat.  Apsiring songwriters.  Great ideas.  Full of hopes.  Just wanting SOMETHING to happen.  All trying to lift up and encourage the other, while inside having the same doubts.  Wendy H. (I've talked about before)  has a very bold-in-Christ attitude about her, which I love.  She demands that I see myself the way God see me, and when I try to refuse, she will not hear of it.  She told me yesterday "Gina, I'm offended by your ringback tone."  I knew exactly what she meant, and I knew I couldn't fool her.  I changed it to "if I only had a brain" from The Wizard of Oz.  She knew that this is exactly how I see myself, and she is exactly right.  So for me to say, "Oh, I just like that song" wouldn't have worked, so I didn't even try it.  At one point in our conversation she said "Gina can we pray?"  so we did.  Wendy and I are alike in our boldness in Christ, and passion for Him, and she is a HUGE encourager and support system in my life.  My other friend Cheryl, (who I think I've also talked about before) is very passionate about her pursuit of songwriting, and she is very willing to allow help from anyone willing to offer it, as well offer help to anyone who needs it.  After all she allowed me to stay in her room at Write About Jesus this year, and if she hadn't, I wouldn't have been able to go.  But we were all three basically talking about the same thing: Desire for God's will for our lives in songwriting.  I think the assumption here is "If you've given me a song God, surely God, surely you want this song out to the masses."  I laugh and laugh at what some of the professional songwriter clinicians at the Write About Jesus conference say about people who say "The Lord gave me this song."  You'd probably be offended, but you see it's business, it's commercial.  One of the clinicians said to that statement "Trust me, the Lord writes better."   But even the very successful are only one song away from their last, or feel these very same feelings of insecurity, but for some reason it's hard for us or at least me not to think, "Oh, if I could just get a song on a cd, then I'd be on my way."  But, in my heart I know better. So we trudge on to the unknown destination of our songwriting careers, or hobies, or whatever it is we're doing.

Last night in Vision I had three people who aren't my Wed. night regulars.  We talked about our hopes and our dreams.  One person even revealed to me a relatively major change they feel God calling them to make.

I think everyone this time of the year has this attitude.  "I want to accomplish__________(you fill in the blank).  As I told you already, I think resolutions aren't really a good thing.  I do however always want to grow in spirit and mind, not so much body (I think it's grown enough).  I want to find God in a new way daily. 

Last night in class we talked about this. 

Proverbs 1  

1-6 These are the wise sayings of Solomon,
   David's son, Israel's king—
Written down so we'll know how to live well and right,
   to understand what life means and where it's going;
A manual for living,
   for learning what's right and just and fair;
To teach the inexperienced the ropes
   and give our young people a grasp on reality.
There's something here also for seasoned men and women,
   still a thing or two for the experienced to learn—
Fresh wisdom to probe and penetrate,
   the rhymes and reasons of wise men and women.

This is for all of us

Start with God

 7 Start with God—the first step in learning is bowing down to God;
   only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning. 
We discussed sarting with God, and I asked when do you start with God.  Most answered that they went to God often as a last resort.  I told them that oftentimes I do sort of the opposite, I turn my back on God when things are bad and say "I'm not talking to You."  Pout Pout.

 8-19 Pay close attention, friend, to what your father tells you; 
  never forget what you learned at your mother's knee.
Wear their counsel like flowers in your hair,
   like rings on your fingers.
Dear friend, if bad companions tempt you,
   don't go along with them.
If they say—"Let's go out and raise some hell.
   Let's beat up some old man, mug some old woman.
Let's pick them clean
   and get them ready for their funerals.
We'll load up on top-quality loot.
   We'll haul it home by the truckload.
Join us for the time of your life!
   With us, it's share and share alike!"—
Oh, friend, don't give them a second look;
   don't listen to them for a minute.
They're racing to a very bad end,
   hurrying to ruin everything they lay hands on.
Nobody robs a bank
   with everyone watching,
Yet that's what these people are doing—
   they're doing themselves in.
When you grab all you can get, that's what happens:
   the more you get, the less you are.

Harmless good times-even in college sometimes aren't harmless. Just like I told them, they know better, you and I know better, and we are held to that standard even if we don't want to be. 

Lady Wisdom

 20-21 Lady Wisdom goes out in the street and shouts.
   At the town center she makes her speech.
In the middle of the traffic she takes her stand.
   At the busiest corner she calls out: 

You know often times we tell God "Lord, I need to get away on a nice vacation to hear you"  But, this says that Wisdom is crying out to us , begging us to listen. I also reminded them that this Lady Wisdom has nothing to do with academics. 

 22-24 "Simpletons! How long will you wallow in ignorance?
   Cynics! How long will you feed your cynicism?
Idiots! How long will you refuse to learn?
   About face! I can revise your life.
Look, I'm ready to pour out my spirit on you;
   I'm ready to tell you all I know.
As it is, I've called, but you've turned a deaf ear;
   I've reached out to you, but you've ignored me.

 25-28 "Since you laugh at my counsel
   and make a joke of my advice,
How can I take you seriously?
   I'll turn the tables and joke about your troubles!
What if the roof falls in,
   and your whole life goes to pieces?
What if catastrophe strikes and there's nothing
   to show for your life but rubble and ashes?
You'll need me then. You'll call for me, but don't expect
      an answer.
   No matter how hard you look, you won't find me.

 29-33 "Because you hated Knowledge
   and had nothing to do with the Fear-of-God,
Because you wouldn't take my advice
   and brushed aside all my offers to train you,
Well, you've made your bed—now lie in it;
   you wanted your own way—now, how do you like it?
Don't you see what happens, you simpletons, you idiots?
   Carelessness kills; complacency is murder.
First pay attention to me, and then relax.
   Now you can take it easy—you're in good hands."

This is the place none of us want to be.

 So my desire is to grow in wisdom, knowledge, and understanding.  Just read this passage again and take comfort and hope in knowing that God wants to reveal Himself to you today in a fresh and new way.  He wants to give and do and be everything in Your life.  Meet every need, comfort every hurt, water your drought-filled life. 

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