I think it’s hard to choose just one song to be a theme song. All of us are multi-dimensional beings, and it seems like we’d all need multiple songs to really encompass our multiple themes!
Andrew Peterson’s Always Good is the top one that comes to mind. I tried to pick out a lyric or two to quote here and I could not narrow it down. The whole thing really speaks to me.
Ok, well, maybe this part:
As we try to believe what is not meant to be understood
Will you help us to trust your intentions for us are still good
‘Cause you laid down your life
And you suffered like I never could, and you’re always good, always good
What else?
Sara Groves’ I’ve Been Here Before rings true for me. So often I forget that I have been in difficult situation X or Y or Z before, and God has helped me through it.
I have survived before, so there is good reason to think that I will again.
Sara Groves’ Second-Guess Girl would also be on my list. I’ve written before about how so often, I really want to do the right thing, but I feel unsure of exactly what the right thing is!
What is the right way to love this person? Do they need tough love or empathy? Do they need a loving kick in the pants, or someone to lovingly sit beside them?
Life would be so much easier if I could be sure about these things.
I have always been a bit different so be forwarned, lol. Burn it to the Ground by Nickelback and Born to be Wild by Steppenwolfe.
Manic Monday by the Bangles.
“ 9 to 5” by Dolly Parton. Love it!
Enjoyed listening.
For awhile, it was Loretta Lynn’s “One’s on the Way.” Then I was dancing to, “Things Can Only Get Better” by Howard Jones. Now? Well, I’m a little less optimistic than Jones right now (you know, after my mother died in 2019 and all of 2020), so. . . since I’ve been leaning pretty hard on God lately, I’d have to say I’m going with a hymn. But. There are so many good hymns, I can’t choose just one. OR Aaron Copeland’s “Appalachian Spring” because the music just lifts me up always.
Don’t you just love simple answers?
Well, I couldn’t pick just one song either!
Recently, mine has been “Goodness of God” (Bethel music). But, I have recently discovered Mission House music, and although all of their songs speak to me, “Never See the End” always moves me to tears.
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I feel like I have different theme songs all the time. I’ve written about this many times, I know, and that’s because there is ALWAYS music running through my head, and often I’m singing it out loud, too. It drives my kids crazy that I have a song for everything. I can’t help it, though. The catalog of songs in my head is just too extensive. It’s one of my superpowers. 🙂
One of my aspirational songs, though, is “Life Uncommon” by Jewel. I know, I just recommended another of her songs to you–which would also be an excellent theme song for everyone right now–but I just really like her lyrics.
I had to pick an instrumental because the lyrics of songs sometimes gets in the way, if you know what I mean! So, it’s “Jessica” by the Allman Brothers. My life has been all over the place: up, down, fast, slow, sad, happy, energetic, despair, and hope, and it’s all there in the song!
Lyric-wise, how about “There’s Only Two Things That Money Can’t Buy, and That’s True Love and Homegrown Tomatoes”!?!
Jenny: That’s funny, because sometimes the music gets in the way of the lyrics for me. 🙂
I’ve been busy not screening and am pleasantly surprised to find several posts here to catch up on.
Numerous songs speak to me. Left to my own devices, the artists I listen to are Bon Jovi, Rend Collective, Allison Krauss, Nickel Creek, Chris LeDoux.
Required to pick a theme song — there’s no way. Beautiful Savior. Scott Joplin’s Solace or Maple Leaf Rag. Any piece of Handel’s Messiah or Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion though I prefer the choral parts. Mr. Jones by Counting Crows. Rend’s My Lighthouse. I don’t know. Any/all.
Rend Collective’s “My Lighthouse–most memorable for learning how to dance to it with BodyandSoul.org, having never danced before. Recent runner-up would be “There was Jesus” by Zach Williams with Dolly parton. Makes me cry every time when she sings “by the graveside” having lost our adult son 10 years ago. But I still listen and sing along anyway. Had to think about this for a couple days.