Jesus in the Playlist

Jesus came through again... via the shuffle feature on my iPod. Between Saturday and Sunday I had gone through 40+ songs, all of which were perfectly placed in the natural progression of thought in my heart as I drove around town, going down to Roanoke, and then Church in Waynesboro on Sunday. After the first song or two, I was like "ok this is pretty ridiculous" so I started scribbling down track names on scraps of paper in my car. Yesterday afternoon I took the list and created a play list and titled it simply, "Jesus Lives In Shuffle". There are a few people who will read the following list and think, 'ok why is that important?'... but each and every single one are. Each one. And for a few friends in particular, you will see why after the first ones I started keeping track and you are going to laugh.

I could spend the next 40 days writing about each song in their own entry. There are some that seem random, others that are hurtful, a few that remind me of a specific moment, a couple that inspired me to continue to make my choice, each one was perfectly placed. Each one perfectly timed. It is Monday. While I had many great conversations with those that love me in the past week, and those I've been open with about my pursuit of new ideas, options, paths... and the decisions to leave some other things behind- I found a great deep profound comfort in the playlist below. I wish I could have recorded particular conversations I have had the past two weeks- just so I can play them back and hear the way I've been loved, and pursued. I am thankful for the minutes I have had to up on my phone plan to compensate for those conversations, and I have been tremendously encouraged by those that have loved me, as I am, right now- the questions, the doubts, and tears and fears. Those friendships, those conversations, were woven into the "Shuffle of the Weekend"- and I can't help but smile and praise the Lord for the voices He chooses to speak through, for the tears I'm not afraid to show, and the strength I'm remembering to use as I make tough choices about my future.

Jesus in the Playlist. Never underestimate what He will use to inspire you, move you, break your heart wide open, and then piece it together again. 

-Put In Me: 100 Portraits & Waterdeep

-Always Midnight: Pat Monahan

-When I Talk To You: Mandy Moore

-Time To Say Goodbye: Andrea Bocelli

-Where's the Love: Hanson

-Love is All We Have: Jesca Hoop

-Mighty to Save: Hillsong

-One Safe Place: Marc Cohn

-Hang: Matchbox Twenty

-Suffering: Ten Shekel Shirt

-Holes: Rascal Flatts

-The Second Day: Kendall Payne

-This Moment: Melissa Etheridge

-Taking Chances: Celine Dion

-Where I Stood: Missy Higgins

-No Air: Jordin Sparks

-Steady As We Go: DMB

-Why Should the Fire Die?: Nickel Creek

-Glamorous: Fergie

-Much: Ten Shekel Shirt

-My Prayer: Chris Rice

-Watch Me Walk: Kerri Noble

-Sometimes Love: Chris Rice

-All Fall Down: MercyMe

-I Got You: Nick Carter

-Home: Michael Buble

-Things People Say: Lady Antebellum

-Change: Taylor Swift

-Green Hills of California: Emerson Hart

-Stay: Lisa Loeb

-Don't Stop Believing: Journey

-You Are Mine: Phil Stacey

-All We Are: Matt Nathanson

-Leavin': Jesse McCartney

-Stay With Me (Brass Bed): Josh Gracin

-Nothing Lasts Forever: Maroon Five

-Closing Time: Semisonic

-Wheel of the World: Carrie Underwood

-Season's of Love: Rent