Music Challenge

I like listening to the radio, for some reason I find the radio a lot more enjoyable at times than just listening to cd's or my ipod. Recently I've been listening to only Christian music, and have all the radios that I use (mostly just my car, and radio in my bathroom) set to K-Love. Every morning as I'm getting ready for work or school I find myself excited to turn on the radio and listen to some good Christian music as a way to get my day started off right. On top of that K-Love shares awesome stories of ministry from churches all over the world as a part of there morning news segment, and I love that they are trying to focus on some good things happening in the world because our news stations are so negatively focused these days. Anyway, I've found that just listening to Christian music has had a huge impact on my life, even though it seems so insignificant Here are some awesome things I've noticed

1. I'm singing Christian lyrics throughout my day and a lot of the lyrics are great reminders that I need to always be aware of what I say and how I act, and that God is always with me when I start to feel lonely or empty.

2. I get through my days with a lot more happiness. Before, I looked at a lot of my days and dreaded them before they even began because I would be gone 12+ hours straight. By the time those days ended I would be so unhappy that I didn't feel like talking, or even trying to act happy. Now, even though those days are still long, I'm smiling at the end of them and I've engaged in a lot of meaningful conversations with some unlikely people including a fellow social work student from China, and 2 men who knew very little English but wanted to know why Americans don't ask "how do you do" very much (because in their country they were told to always ask other people "how do you do"). It seems like a simple conversation but by the end I could just feel that i had made their day because I think a lot of times people just ignore them since they don't speak very good English and it's hard to understand if you don't take the time to listen.

3. My desire to listen to other music that does not Glorify God has gone down quite a bit. There are those few songs I still like to listen to (mostly Etta James, and Rascal Flatts) but I try to limit it as much as possible because I realized it was infiltrating my life and making me act and say things that were contradicting to my faith and walk with Christ.

So friends, I'd like to challenge you, try listening to only Christian Music (doesn't matter if it's on cd's, ipod, and the radio) for 10 days, and see how your life changes.

In the words of Jaci Valesquez (OLD SCHOOL!!!): We can make a difference, we can make a change, we can make the world a better place.