Seems to be a theme for me the past couple of weeks but the power of music has really blasted me in the gut...in a good way. My car had some recent problems with the fuel pump so I had to take it in earlier in the week to get it fixed. Guess they tend to wear out when you have a car with 199,385 miles on it (did I mention I am the only owner and its a 2002?). I have an iPod cord that hooks into my deck and I am constantly listening to it when I drive. Now that I have a 50 mile commute everyday to work and back i have appreciated my over 2000 songs even more. So when I had to take my car into the shop and was driving my wife's car which is sans radio (someone broke into it two weeks ago and stole everything out of it) I found myself missing my music.
The more I thought about it and the music on my iPod the more I realized that I had some stuff on there that was duplicated, of poor quality because I "borrowed" it from a file sharing site, or that the name of the song/artist was misspelled and so forth. So I spent some time in my iTunes cleaning everything up so when I got my car back my music experience would be even better. Needless to say it was and I am even more aware of just how powerful music can be whether it is driving on the freeway, singing in the shower, or worshipping God with my praise band.
So am I to look at my fuel pump going out and costing me hundreds of dollars as a blessing? Hmmmmm..........
I would take it as a blessing. You never know.. Maybe its a warning about something else happening. But I believe everything happens for a reason.. I would fix the fuel pump tho.
ReplyDeleteI have had almost the exact experience as you describe in your blog. As I was reading your blog it made me think of the movie August Rush. Music is all around you. It just needs to be embraced. Its an amazing and powerful thing that surrounds us all.