GEN X: What music have you been listening to ?!

Over here and over there, I hear and I often have to bear other people's ...

It amazes me how something like a song can stick with me and serve as a neumonic device. This song, in fact, comes up in my memory at the oddest moments, reminding me that sometimes I should just ...

If we each listen closely to the soft pitter-patter of God's still small voice, we might hear ...


"Grand speeches pour out with the rain
On the streets where no one's listening
And You cursed the cold wind on her face
But she's trying to tell You something.

A song that folds in the distance
Somehow you feel it in your soul
But you carry on with your business
Like you didn't hear this melody that calls you home ... ... "

This one goes out as a dedication to all those caught between Covid, Red and Blue Politics and Personal need ...

For these, Lord, I ask that You please hear us as we admit to You that we ...

In 1977, the band KANSAS (one of my favorites) gave us a portrait of a very famous Jewish person whom we all love and adore and who knew more than me or you ...


Then, in 1988 and still later in 2008, Kerry Livgren, a former member of the very same band, remade the song in order to give us yet another portrait of an even more famous Jewish Person, One whom some love even more and adore and who definitely knows more than me or you ...

When you find a love that's real, eternal and meant to be, then there's nothing that can tear it apart, not even ...

" They say our love was never meant to be
That time would make it just a memory
But they don't know, how can they understand?
We didn't build no castles in the sand ... ..."

It's always interesting when a spoof of the truth from strange voices represent the choices made by ...

With fellow Christians of all shapes and sizes of thought, I heartily extend my hand and suggest we all ...



"Love is but a song we sing
Fear's the way we die
You can make the mountains ring
Or make the angels cry
Though the bird is on the wing
And you may not know why

Come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now
Some may come and some may go

He will surely pass
When the one that left us here
Returns for us at last
We are but a moment's sunlight
Fading in the grass ... ... "

If we look inside and outside and we see the barriers that are holding us back, then maybe it's time to ...

oh. ah. The soft, soothing sounds of existential angst and doubt ... I like it! (And I hear you, Brother!)

This was (and has been) not only one of my favorites, it also seems to have been one of the truest songs in my life. Fortunately, through His Providence, I found a time when I no longer had to remain dependent upon what little I got from the ...

" ... ... Oh, oh, telephone line, give me some time
I'm living in twilight
Oh, oh, telephone line, give me some time
I'm living in twilight

Okay, so no one's answering
Well, can't you just let it ring a little longer, longer, longer
Oh, I'll just sit tight
In shadows of the night
Let it ring forevermore, oh-woh
Yeah, yeah, yeah ... ... "

Today, I'm posting the following song in tribute to Oz Fox, a member of the band Stryper. He has been dealing with serious health issues these past few years and, from my understanding, has been recently hospitalized. Oz wrote the song below and it has meant a lot to me over the years, both because it rocks and because it encouraged me as a teenager to seek after ...

"I want to sing some other way
Always the same, never a change
What can I do to make me feel right
Change all my ways, give up my life

Oh, what did you say?
Oh, Christ is the way
Rockin' for the One who is the Rock

I feel His strength come into me
Reading His word helps me to see
I feel so new, I want to sing
Feeling His joy in everything

Rockin' for the One who is the Rock !!! "

Thanks, Oz!

Do you ever stumble across a single song and wonder, "Where's this one been all my life"? I have...

Frankly, being that February is February, filled with all kinds of special considerations, I don't care what they think about me and I don't care what they say if I dare to play one of my favorite songs from 1981.

For some reason it feels like a weekend in which to offer a childhood rememberance for sports and a ...