Music Extremes - and a bit of a ramble

This weekend I used one of my birthday gift vouchers to stock up on 2 new CDs for my ever-growing collection. I've been eyeing "God Will Make a Way: Best of Don Moen" for a while now, mostly because it has the song "I will sing" on it, which meant a lot to me when I was going through some really tough times. But it came in under the value of the gift voucher so I hit the discount rack and got a Dance/Club remix of a couple of worship songs just for the heck of it, for "variety", to get up to the voucher amount.

Well, as I suspected I LOVE the Don Moen CD. It's done completely seamlessly, as if it were a live worship experience, even though the songs are taken off a lot of different live and studio albums. And there are a full 19 tracks - more than my money's worth. I've loaded it all up on my work computer and it's going right now, loud as I dare. Total stress-relief.

I was completely taken by surprise with the other CD. It's not the best mix I've heard....but my son LOVES it! He thinks it's awesome. It seems I have a potential clubber on my hands....! OK, I have to admit their version of "Shout to the Lord" was pretty cool, but it was all much the same and could have done with extra bass and some tweaking here and there.

Perhaps the poor kid's just gotten tired of my taste in live praise & worship music, which is most of my collection. That and having to listen to me and the worship band practice and then lead each week. One day the kid's going to tell his psychiatrist "my mom brought me up in the church - in the front right-hand row, to be exact". I have to admit though that he's showing a new interest in music and worship. We've worked out piano harmonies that he can pick out while I play at home, and they sound pretty impressive.

I asked him a while ago if he'd ever like to lead worship or play in a worship band, and he seems pretty happy to think about it. However, I don't want to project on him what I enjoy. I basically only play worship music - I'm not too good at the reading-music thing, and go by ear, playing what I know - which is a load of worship stuff!

I'd like for him to learn an instrument, but am not going to push it. He's created some cool stuff on the computer - perhaps that's the only instrument he needs. Come to think of it, he likes the club-type stuff on the computer too... Hmmmm....

Music is huge in my little family. God-music specifically. For me it's a way to worship like I can in no other way. I long to be able to write songs to God, but so far no good. All I can do is use other's words and tunes in my worship and praise. For now that's good enough.