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Finding God in All the Wrong Places: Five Songs for the Wounded at Heart
What songs could save a bruised soul in the dark?
Lately I’ve been thinking about all kinds of things: the future, politics, love, the notion of fate, and especially existentialism. Music plays a key role in shaping how I bring these things out in my own words. Melodies and lyrics inform the sketch of thoughts that I then need to fill in with my own colors and shades.
God’s been featuring in a lot of my musings too. The nature of heaven and hell is more abstract than we believe, I think, and it’s not so easily encompassed through an archaic book that the sons of men have fondled and abused and misused for thousands of years.
God, if we ever knew Him at all, is not exactly what we’ve been led to believe — or so it goes with my interpretation. I don’t claim to be a woman of faith, but I study things to the point of obsession. God, to me, is an ever-changing subject I’ll never tire of even as, at the same time, I wonder if all my answers would be sad instead of hopeful.
Here are some songs I’ve been thinking about lately in regards to the idea that we as humans are all wounded at heart — and we need something, like music, to lift us out of the despair.
