Musical Linguistics

"The art of losing myself in bringing you praise..." refers to a line from one of my favorite worship songs, "From the Inside Out." The words in the song so accurately describe my life I feel compelled to share my thoughts and feelings on certain things and to also improve my writing skills because I thoroughly enjoy writing when it comes to writing songs, writing papers (only when I like the topic) and writing here I guess! I chose "The art of losing myself in bringing you praise" as the title because it's what I try and at least want to live my life by. After all, It's not about me, it's about God and I hope my insights can help others in their journey through life. Looking at losing myself as an art form is pretty deep stuff...I look at it as we only have one life to live and I feel I was called to live a life not for myself, but most importantly for my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the only response that should come with that is bringing him praise. That's how I am going continue to live my life, or at least try the best I can. But, unforunately, it's not that simple. I'm the first to admit that I don't lead the best Christian life or at least where I think I should be at in my walk...but the thing is we're all sinners and we make mistakes, we forget to read the Bible, or we forget to think before we speak, or we choose to do other things with our time. And I'm only hoping and praying I can take the necessary steps in order to grow in my faith and I believe these next couple years of my life and possibly where I end up for college will hopefully help me with this desire in "coming back to Christ". So, this simple, yet very complex phrase, suggests we forget about ourselves for a second and choose to live lives that will bring praise to the Lord.



Probably wondering why I chose Musical Linguistics for my name, here's why:



A good majority of my time is spent listening to music. Whatever I may be doing, you can usually always find me with my ipod, or listening to music in my car, or having music playing in my room. As you can infer, yes, I love music! It's all around us, wherever we go we cannot escape it. Whether it's playing in stores or restaurants, in movies, tv shows, commericals, we are a soceity which focuses a lot of media around music. Music can advertise many things and what I want to try to point out is how music can be used to worship and bring glory to God. Yes, some music that we listen to doesnt always have the best message, but we listen to it anyway, right? We like the beat or how it sounds..but is what we're listening to really the best thing for us to hear as a Christian? Hearing about sex, drugs, profanity, and lust isn't exactly what we're called to do...but, I won't deny that I don't listen to certain music like that, but I suggest to listen with a discernful ear. That's why I started to love Christian music a lot more...it's so uplifting and encouraging and safe to listen to.

It's called Musical Linguistics also because whenever I listen to certain songs, I somehow always find myself relating it to something going on in my life or how I'm feeling then. I love to merely sing along and think about the words being sung and it helps me through difficult times or joyous times. Also, music tells us a story, whatever it may be, with words and instruments, appealing to our thoughts and feelings. It's a unique and sometimes intimate way of expressing ones honest opinions about life. And music is a big part of my life...it can be used in so many different ways; either listening to it, playing music, or giving praise to the Lord. And that is what I'll mainly be writing about on this blog...showing the importance of music in our lives and how it can help us through life...with the exception of Jesus, of course.

Music is it's own language.