rediscovering mr. garrels x mason jar music collaborations :)
Somehow it always comes back to this.
(Source: Spotify)
12:28
Love when I’m exploring a new artist and randomly find songs with Josh Garrels in them. How is the Christian music industry so small?
Also. Can’t focus. New iPad to look at, just uploaded pictures to Facebook and keep getting notifications for them and thus keep getting distracted (worst timing…why am I dumb), ice cream coupons for Tara’s!!!, stress, and again his melty beautiful folksy voice.
Okay. Crack down for an hour and a half.
—> Edit, 13:57
Literally cannot concentrate. False fire alarms being pulled, running into random people, E finally sending out the revised/final praise band line ups and everything…AHHHH HOW AM I GOING TO DO THIS.
(Source: Spotify)
09:20
but true love is the burden that will carry me back home
carry me with the, memories of the, beauty i have known
16:44
Finding a lot of songs that have been speaking to me lately…it’s nice. Even when I render myself totally incompetent in my words, I can always count on stumbling upon some lyrical masterpiece that embodies my emotions and thoughts. A catharsis of sorts.
Totally, 150% overwhelmed by the whirlwind of things that are going on. Changes, restructuring, loosely planning out next semester’s events, trial runs and experiments for welcome week, finally meeting with this and that and him and her to catch up after far too long, having to fend for myself in terms of food, grocery shopping and going to the gym as a means of bonding with friends (what the), cleaning the bathroom becoming a normal part of my daily routine, sleeping a full 8 hours no matter what (I really feel like I’m getting old. I can’t function on much less and my body won’t let me get up so I keep missing class as a result of sleeping late…), and all this music that is happening lately.
But I have to be really grateful, since experience reminds me that a life; even a month; even a week without any set plans or goals to meet or things to do turns me into a sick, cabin-fevered vegetable.
Anchor of my soul, you sustain
When I’m in the storm, you remain
Good to me.
I think I’ve already posted this before, but…this song. Really.
This…such a beautiful metaphor for Christian living. The song is based off/parallels Odysseus’ story (look it up if you don’t already know it—it’ll shed new light to the lyrics). Josh Garrels has really struck gold with this album. Precious.
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I’m holding on to the hope that one day this could be made right
I’ve been shipwrecked, and left for dead, and I have seen the darkest sights
Everyone I’ve loved seems like a stranger in the night
But oh my heart still burns, tells me to return, and search the fading light
I’m sailing home to you, I won’t be long
By the light of moon I will press on
Until I find my love
Trouble has beset my ways, and wicked winds have blown
Sirens call my name, they say they’ll ease my pain, then break me on the stones
But true love is the burden that will carry me back home
Carry me with the memories of the beauty I have known
I’m sailing home to you, I won’t be long
By the light of moon I will press on
So tie me to the mast of this old ship and point me home
Before I lose the one I love, before my chance is gone
I want to hold her in my arms
