Thia music-reviewal project continues tonight, because I'm bored and cold sitting here with nothing else to do. This time, it'll be the FFH album "Ready To Fly", which was released on April 15, 2003 by Essential Records. It makes terrific cleaning music; unfortunately, there's not really anything to clean here, and barely anything to straighten. Anyway...
Track One - You Found Me - Downside of trying to summarize anything that isn't country, and therefore doesn't expressly tell a story that's easy to sum up: You kind of have to guess as to what it's about. This is either a couple falling in love, or an illustration of how Christ saves us, or both. It's a good song, though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SVDDdxJ0-Y
Track Two - Good To Be Free - A song of praise and thankfulness for God's mercy and grace to save us, therefore freeing us from sin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRCEYyO5NcQ
Track Three - It's A Good Day - This is one of the greatest songs ever written. Things don't always go the way we'd like them to in this life. Most of the time it's tough; you're fighting just to get through the day, much less the next month, year, semester, whatever. But if we stop and think about the size of the gift that we have, of being children of God, that's just so incredibly amazing. And when that's true, really, it's always a good day. We just sometimes forget. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S-KdxH848I (I need to learn how to play this.)
Track Four - Ready To Fly - Sometimes, we just long for heaven. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUdy3Y4K4Ko&feature=related
Track Five - I'll Join The Rocks - One of my favorites on this CD. This tells of a journey being undertaken; I've mentioned it several times in earlier posts, like the first camp history, or several of the graduation posts. It's also stating, "Hey, even if things go crazy and nothing is as it once was, I'll still praise you, Lord." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxBq1XGhGBY (I also need to learn how to play this.)
Track Six - Follow Love - "A melancholy hopeful song about starting over somewhere new", I said of this earlier on the graduation songs post, and it is. And part of starting over somewhere new is leaving everything you knew behind. It's so sad, but at the same time, sort of an adventure...of course, adventures aren't very much fun while you're in the middle of them. One of my most-played songs here lately; along with a few hymns and several country songs. There's some mental block, besides the not-really-having-time-to-play-my-guitar thing, that's kind of frustrating. I've kind of been singing hymns nonstop since August, though; there's some fantastic truths to remember in those. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyAHBzqzBwM
Track Seven - Never Gonna Be Alone - More of the same general theme: When life seems dark and terrifying and lonesome, we've got a Friend, a Guide to help us through it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9YAVlpag58
Track Eight - Ready For A World - Is it time for heaven yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrDkNFbxpNQ (This guy must have had a blast making this video. Good job, dude!)
Track Nine - Waltz For Jennifer - The main singer wrote this for his wife. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc_3MDN2Uzg
Track Ten - His Love Goes On Forever - Preach! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdyXoGvvXns (This is a horrible cover, but I couldn't find anything else on YouTube.)
Track Eleven - If Not For Christ - Pondering how without Christ, we can't even hope to possibly save ourselves, and the marvelous mystery of the cross. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz3uPxCxGu8
Track Twelve - Here I Am - A prayer for mercy, plea for forgiveness, and thankfulness for grace. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtGt3cIOpzY
This is a fantastic CD, which I've listened to scores of times; enough so that I wonder how it can possibly play each time through all the scratches, though I'm glad it does. Full of great preaching, reminders that this world isn't all we have to look forward to, that God will help us through the rough times, and that we should try to live our lives pointing others to Christ. Very encouraging, I've been listening to it often. I guess I should try to rank these, just to be consistent, though they all have good qualities, some I just enjoy more.
12 - Here I Am
11 - Waltz For Jennifer
10 - If Not For Christ
9 - Ready For A World
8 - Good To Be Free
7 - You Found Me
6 - Ready To Fly
5 - Never Gonna Be Alone
4 - His Love Goes On Forever
3 - Follow Love
2 - I'll Join The Rocks
1 - It's A Good Day.
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