I like rainy days.
I do.
It is a good feeling to wake up and hear the rain even before you see it. And then you look out and it is perfectly gray and green and everything looks shiny and clean and some of the things that normally just blend in with the rest of the world stand out a bit more, because they are dark from the dampness and the contrast distinguishes them.
On rainy days, I just feel like writing.
Writing and writing and writing. Writing so fast and so furiously that my semi-colon/colon key falls off my keyboard. oh wait! I already did that. lol. (now it looks kind of like my keyboard is missing a tooth or something. but i like it like this, because it reminds me of that time that i co-oped at the Independent, and had to use a laptop that missing the comma key.)
The problem is that it never rains on days when I have time to write!
Like today... I had to help mom make salsa, which involved a lot of chopping! Too much chopping. Too many onions. lol.
Anyways... even though I couldn't actually write, I was still very much in a wordy sort of mood, so I thought that I would listen to some music while I worked, and focus specifically on the lyrics, and notice which songs actually used words well... like which songs effectively produced emotion. because i am all about learning how to create emotion, thanks to that one year adventure novel course.
So i set my ipod on shuffle, and began listening, and honestly, it was like my ipod knew which songs would suit my mood on a rainy day! It was just one great, kind of sad, wordy song after the other.
So I thought I would share some of them with you. They are not really unknown songs at all.... Just songs that are very fitting for a rainy day!
Great, Kind of Sad, Wordy Songs:
-"Without You" and "Everything Good" by Ashes Remain
-"Not Alone" and "Hymn For The Missing" by Red
-"Winter Air" by Annasay
-"Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol
-Any song by Switchfoot. Lol. But especially "Thrive" and "Where I belong" and "Restless"
-Any acoustic song by Anthem Lights... especially "As Long As You Love Me" and "Can't Get Over You"
-"The Voice" by Celtic Woman
-"I Won't Give Up" by Jason Mraz
-"For the Nights I Can't Remember" by Hedley
-"Come By The Hills" by Celtic Thunder
-"A Thousand Years" by Christina Perri
-"I Am A Stone" by Demon Hunter
-"10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)" by Matt Redman
-"I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston (oh, Luke and Lorelai... I will always love you. and i will always believe that you were meant to be together! You are the whole entire reason that I like this song! lol.)
-"Jesus, Friend of Sinners" by Casting Crowns
-"Changed" by Rascal Flatts
-"White Horse" by Taylor Swift
-Anything by Shinedown
-"MLK" by U2
-Lots of songs by Seabird... like "The Sound of You and I" and "Trust" and "The Good King" and "Rocks Into Rivers".
Okay... well, that ended up being kind of a long list. lol. But I just love them all so much. =)
And I found a really great verse in my Bible about rain! (I bet it's in your Bible too! =))
Isaiah 45:8- "You heavens above, rain down righteousness; let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness grow with it; I, the Lord, have created it."
And I was thinking about it... and rain plays quite a prominent role in the Bible!
I mean... Noah's ark... there was a whole lot of rain involved in that! God used it to cleanse the earth of the evil that had become so prominent. I wonder if He is ever tempted to do that again...
And He also uses rain as a blessing... or rather, the lack of rain as a curse. Elijah caused the rain to to um... stop raining for a good long time, because of the sin of the people. I think. lol. In Zechariah, it talks about how the families who did not go to Jerusalem to worship the Lord would not receive rain.
The Bible also mentions (maybe in Job? and some other places? sorry... I did not do enough research before writing this...) that God demonstrates His power by commanding the rain and the snow. Yeah... Job 37:6- "For to the snow He says, "Fall on the earth", and likewise to the downpour, His mighty downpour..."
okay. It's time to end this before I get any more scattered. lol.
......uh... The End. lol. I never know how to end blog posts!!
I do.
It is a good feeling to wake up and hear the rain even before you see it. And then you look out and it is perfectly gray and green and everything looks shiny and clean and some of the things that normally just blend in with the rest of the world stand out a bit more, because they are dark from the dampness and the contrast distinguishes them.
On rainy days, I just feel like writing.
Writing and writing and writing. Writing so fast and so furiously that my semi-colon/colon key falls off my keyboard. oh wait! I already did that. lol. (now it looks kind of like my keyboard is missing a tooth or something. but i like it like this, because it reminds me of that time that i co-oped at the Independent, and had to use a laptop that missing the comma key.)
The problem is that it never rains on days when I have time to write!
Like today... I had to help mom make salsa, which involved a lot of chopping! Too much chopping. Too many onions. lol.
Anyways... even though I couldn't actually write, I was still very much in a wordy sort of mood, so I thought that I would listen to some music while I worked, and focus specifically on the lyrics, and notice which songs actually used words well... like which songs effectively produced emotion. because i am all about learning how to create emotion, thanks to that one year adventure novel course.
So i set my ipod on shuffle, and began listening, and honestly, it was like my ipod knew which songs would suit my mood on a rainy day! It was just one great, kind of sad, wordy song after the other.
So I thought I would share some of them with you. They are not really unknown songs at all.... Just songs that are very fitting for a rainy day!
Great, Kind of Sad, Wordy Songs:
-"Without You" and "Everything Good" by Ashes Remain
-"Not Alone" and "Hymn For The Missing" by Red
-"Winter Air" by Annasay
-"Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol
-Any song by Switchfoot. Lol. But especially "Thrive" and "Where I belong" and "Restless"
-Any acoustic song by Anthem Lights... especially "As Long As You Love Me" and "Can't Get Over You"
-"The Voice" by Celtic Woman
-"I Won't Give Up" by Jason Mraz
-"For the Nights I Can't Remember" by Hedley
-"Come By The Hills" by Celtic Thunder
-"A Thousand Years" by Christina Perri
-"I Am A Stone" by Demon Hunter
-"10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)" by Matt Redman
-"I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston (oh, Luke and Lorelai... I will always love you. and i will always believe that you were meant to be together! You are the whole entire reason that I like this song! lol.)
-"Jesus, Friend of Sinners" by Casting Crowns
-"Changed" by Rascal Flatts
-"White Horse" by Taylor Swift
-Anything by Shinedown
-"MLK" by U2
-Lots of songs by Seabird... like "The Sound of You and I" and "Trust" and "The Good King" and "Rocks Into Rivers".
Okay... well, that ended up being kind of a long list. lol. But I just love them all so much. =)
And I found a really great verse in my Bible about rain! (I bet it's in your Bible too! =))
Isaiah 45:8- "You heavens above, rain down righteousness; let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness grow with it; I, the Lord, have created it."
And I was thinking about it... and rain plays quite a prominent role in the Bible!
I mean... Noah's ark... there was a whole lot of rain involved in that! God used it to cleanse the earth of the evil that had become so prominent. I wonder if He is ever tempted to do that again...
And He also uses rain as a blessing... or rather, the lack of rain as a curse. Elijah caused the rain to to um... stop raining for a good long time, because of the sin of the people. I think. lol. In Zechariah, it talks about how the families who did not go to Jerusalem to worship the Lord would not receive rain.
The Bible also mentions (maybe in Job? and some other places? sorry... I did not do enough research before writing this...) that God demonstrates His power by commanding the rain and the snow. Yeah... Job 37:6- "For to the snow He says, "Fall on the earth", and likewise to the downpour, His mighty downpour..."
okay. It's time to end this before I get any more scattered. lol.
......uh... The End. lol. I never know how to end blog posts!!
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