Let's cut waaaaay back to say 2009.
I was not a fan of Third Day, the christian rock (country) band.
Mac Powell's voice made me cringe. I was told that this was not music. This was just noise.
Then as anyone who knows me or reads my blog knows. I moved in the insane house of the Reintjes family.
Now, first of all, they were WEIRD.
I mean, these Christians really freaking loved God, like he was Bieber or something.
They weren't just Jesus Freaks, they were Jesus Lovers.
That was super freaking cool :)
When you live with someone, and move into a whole new families life, you learn the complexities of it. They weren't perfect, or completely logical, or angels of any sort. They had bumps and mishaps and sillyness, but the cool thing about this family was they really LOVED each other.
BUT. Back to the point of the blog. They LISTENED TO THIRD DAY ALL THE TIME.
This was not ok. I would wake up to Third Day, do school work to Third Day, eat to Third Day, brush teeth to Third Day. I would try to show the kids other music, and they liked a bit of it but it was NO Third Day.
Then the weirdest thing happened.
Somehow, the sound of Third Day was ok, it wasn't annoying, but it was just ok.
Then.. there would be days where I couldn't get the strength to move, and Third Day would come on and sing the words that God knew I needed to hear.
and now, with my family so far away from me, Third Day doesn't play as much in my house. But when I need to know that someone out there loves me, God finds a way to make Third Day play. My iTunes won't stop playing it, my phone will find it, the ipod will go there.
Then Mac sings, and I see the smiling kids, I see Koos making coffee and filling a hot water bottle, telling us a work story and getting the popcorn out. And there is Aubrey, sitting at her desk, blasting a freaking Third Day song, writing something down in her book, and telling me something I won't get until I need to, and helping me remember who I am in God.
I know Mac Powell was singing about God in the song Revelation, and I agree but I also think that when it comes the Reintjes,
"I've got nothing without you"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEn74zP1glQ
I was not a fan of Third Day, the christian rock (country) band.
Mac Powell's voice made me cringe. I was told that this was not music. This was just noise.
Then as anyone who knows me or reads my blog knows. I moved in the insane house of the Reintjes family.
Now, first of all, they were WEIRD.
I mean, these Christians really freaking loved God, like he was Bieber or something.
They weren't just Jesus Freaks, they were Jesus Lovers.
That was super freaking cool :)
When you live with someone, and move into a whole new families life, you learn the complexities of it. They weren't perfect, or completely logical, or angels of any sort. They had bumps and mishaps and sillyness, but the cool thing about this family was they really LOVED each other.
BUT. Back to the point of the blog. They LISTENED TO THIRD DAY ALL THE TIME.
This was not ok. I would wake up to Third Day, do school work to Third Day, eat to Third Day, brush teeth to Third Day. I would try to show the kids other music, and they liked a bit of it but it was NO Third Day.
Then the weirdest thing happened.
Somehow, the sound of Third Day was ok, it wasn't annoying, but it was just ok.
Then.. there would be days where I couldn't get the strength to move, and Third Day would come on and sing the words that God knew I needed to hear.
and now, with my family so far away from me, Third Day doesn't play as much in my house. But when I need to know that someone out there loves me, God finds a way to make Third Day play. My iTunes won't stop playing it, my phone will find it, the ipod will go there.
Then Mac sings, and I see the smiling kids, I see Koos making coffee and filling a hot water bottle, telling us a work story and getting the popcorn out. And there is Aubrey, sitting at her desk, blasting a freaking Third Day song, writing something down in her book, and telling me something I won't get until I need to, and helping me remember who I am in God.
I know Mac Powell was singing about God in the song Revelation, and I agree but I also think that when it comes the Reintjes,
"I've got nothing without you"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEn74zP1glQ
Read this today (Dec. 15) again. Made me have a happy sad moment.
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