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JennYSpiritual Healing: 'The Man in Black', Johnny Cash
December 27th 2006 23:40
I am emotionally worn out from the events of the past several days. I went to work today and didn't take my usual suitcase of cd's with me. I didn't have anything in it that really fit my mood, anyways.
As I was sitting at work, thinking, as I tend to do way too much of, I realized I needed to listen to something. I had to stop thinking so I could focus on my job. Well, that requires a lot of thinking, too. Just not the kind I was doing. I was depressed. Angry. Let down. Frustrated.
What could I listen to that would pick me up? I didn't have a clue. I went out to my van and realized I had left some CD's in the holder in the console. I pulled out Meredith Brooks, Alanis Morrisette, Jonny Lang, and a few others. I just grabbed them all and took them in to work with me after my break.
When I got situated at work, still feeling like a mess, I sorted through them again. Alanis, too angry. Meredith, too bitchy, Jonny Lang, too young...and then...there it was.
Johnny Cash, A Hundred Highways V.
Perfect.
I put the CD in, put my plugs in and was transported. I saw Johnny singing in the studio. I listened to the quiver of his aged vocal cords, I felt the hope, the pain, the sorrow that this man poured into each song.
I am still a little sad. I am still overwhelmed and let down. But listening to Johnny, obviously close to death, pour out his soul gave me the strength I needed to get up and out of the dark place I was wallowing in. I was motivated to climb up out of it.
For the rest of my life, possibly, track 5, 'Help Me' will be my anthem in times like these, when I have been too stubborn, once again, to just give it up and let Him help me.
"Lord, Help me walk
Another mile, just one more mile;
I'm tired of walkin' all alone.
Lord, Help me smile
Another smile, just one more smile;
You know I just can't make it on my own.
I never thought I needed help before;
I thought that I could get by - by myself.
Now I know I just can't take it any more.
With a humble heart, on bended knee,
I'm beggin' You, please, Help Me.
Come down from Your golden
And throne to me, to lowly me;
I need to feel the touch of Your tender hand.
Remove the chains of darkness
Let me see, Lord let me see;
Just where I fit into your master plan.
I never thought I needed help before;
I thought that I could get by - by myself.
Now I know I just can't take it any more.
With a humble heart, on bended knee,
I'm beggin' You, please, Help Me."
Who has done this for you? What artist heals you during painful times?
As I was sitting at work, thinking, as I tend to do way too much of, I realized I needed to listen to something. I had to stop thinking so I could focus on my job. Well, that requires a lot of thinking, too. Just not the kind I was doing. I was depressed. Angry. Let down. Frustrated.
What could I listen to that would pick me up? I didn't have a clue. I went out to my van and realized I had left some CD's in the holder in the console. I pulled out Meredith Brooks, Alanis Morrisette, Jonny Lang, and a few others. I just grabbed them all and took them in to work with me after my break.
When I got situated at work, still feeling like a mess, I sorted through them again. Alanis, too angry. Meredith, too bitchy, Jonny Lang, too young...and then...there it was.
The Master
Johnny Cash, A Hundred Highways V.
Perfect.
I put the CD in, put my plugs in and was transported. I saw Johnny singing in the studio. I listened to the quiver of his aged vocal cords, I felt the hope, the pain, the sorrow that this man poured into each song.
I am still a little sad. I am still overwhelmed and let down. But listening to Johnny, obviously close to death, pour out his soul gave me the strength I needed to get up and out of the dark place I was wallowing in. I was motivated to climb up out of it.
For the rest of my life, possibly, track 5, 'Help Me' will be my anthem in times like these, when I have been too stubborn, once again, to just give it up and let Him help me.
"Lord, Help me walk
Another mile, just one more mile;
I'm tired of walkin' all alone.
Lord, Help me smile
Another smile, just one more smile;
You know I just can't make it on my own.
I never thought I needed help before;
I thought that I could get by - by myself.
Now I know I just can't take it any more.
With a humble heart, on bended knee,
I'm beggin' You, please, Help Me.
Come down from Your golden
And throne to me, to lowly me;
I need to feel the touch of Your tender hand.
Remove the chains of darkness
Let me see, Lord let me see;
Just where I fit into your master plan.
I never thought I needed help before;
I thought that I could get by - by myself.
Now I know I just can't take it any more.
With a humble heart, on bended knee,
I'm beggin' You, please, Help Me."
Who has done this for you? What artist heals you during painful times?
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