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Broccoli, celery, gotta be Veggie Tales

visioncgbc | May 20, 2008 07:31

 When Chloe had her first birthday party the theme was Veggie Tales. I remember having subs and all the toppings out displayed 'cause they were veggies.  I decorated the tables with little flower pots and had her 1 yr. picture in each pot.  I always loved Veggie Tales.  I remember 106.9 had a contest in about 2002 (I think) for tickets to see a Broadway style show.  I won the tickets, and we took Rebekah.  It was an awesome show.  I think my favorite Veggie Tales was George and the Duck.  Veggie Tales took the story of David and Bathsheba and turned it into a cartoon that was about a rubber duck, and the king who wanted what someone else had and wouldn't stop until he had it.  Brilliant.  Entertaining.  They even had the story of Jonah on in theaters. 

I wrote a song last week and posted in on the lyric section of the Write About Jesus discussion board.  It's titled "Give it all up".  In the song I say basically "If everything you've done right has turned out wrong, give it all up to God." I also say it's not about giving up on your dreams that were given to you by God.  I post lyrics pretty often on the board, and very often get no comments on lyrics. See if my friends see something I write they'll say "Oh that is so good."  From another songwriter though, comments usually involve help in trying to better the song.  There's not much "Wow, that's great, go record it".  Well yesterday I got an email response about the song.  This is relatively unusual.  I have a few friends who see something and email me, but usually people leave comments on the board.  In my email I was told that the title caught his eye because of a book he had just finished reading.  He liked the song, but he felt like a turn in the underlying message in the song might be even better.  He suggested that through reading this book that he'd realized the ultimate goal through trials and even life was our relationship with Christ.  That whether a situation changed or didn't change that the goal of our life is to live in relationship with Christ.  He felt that if I communicated that in the song that it would take a person even further than to just say "Lay it down."  He also said that it might be better to write the song in 1st person instead of 3rd, meaning instead of saying "You should do this or that"; I'm saying "I should do this or that."  I wrote him back and thanked him for his thoughtfulness in his response and the time he'd spent.  I explained to him that I'm going through a lot in my life and wrote the song really to and for myself, as if to read it back to myself and say "Do this!"  He emailed me back and said "I don't know exactly what you are going through, but I'm going to attach the key chapter in the book I told you I was telling you about."  The book is Me, Myself, and Bob.  It's about the rise and fall of the creator of Veggie Tales.  I was totally unaware that this had even happened.  I read this chapter and reality of things hit me and I can't deny it anymore.  I realized that I have my hands clasped holding so tightly to things that if I'd open my hands I'd see they aren't even there anymore.  I realize that the purpose of my posting that song had little or maybe nothing to do with the song.  God's ways are always higher.  I invited him to co-write with me or rewriting the song if he was interested, since he seemed to have ideas. 

I'm going to attach the chapter, and I hope that at some point you'll read it.

Holly and I were talking a few weeks ago.  We both questioned "why?"  Why didn't things fall into place when we seemed so sure about ideas that were going to take off?  Why had God allowed us to be in depressing, and what seemed the wrong environment for what we were best capable to do.  We decided that back then we weren't broken, and now we are, and to quote a famous author, "That has made all the difference in the world."  I must see that God is the same God, no matter who I am or what level in life I’ve achieved.  It’s not about me, it’s about Him. 

I'm gonna post the chapter in the blog below 

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