Because Music Helps

Thank you for all of the sweet comments on my last post!  I was amazed at all of your kind words of encouragement and hope!   I have been planning a follow up post, but it has seemed too exhausting (does that ever happen to you?) so I have avoided it and disappeared off of blogger for a while instead!  It's not because things aren't good (because things really are pretty good!) it's just the end of the school year, which becomes CRAZY.  On top of that I have been trying to get ready for Guatemala and have found the two to be very consuming.  So it is easy to put blogging on the back burner.

One of these days I am going to post a follow up to my Hard Things post when I finally get it done, but until then I am going to share some of the songs that helped me over the past few months.  I found that music was one of the things that helped the very most, which is odd because I have never been a huge music person.  Yet music helped when nothing else seemed to.  These are four of the songs that I listened to again, and again, and again:   

 

Beautiful Heartbreak by Hilary Weeks.  I LOVE this song.  I had heard it before everything in life went crazy, but it became much more meaningful  after.  It gave me a sense of hope when I really needed it.  On top of that, it is such a beautiful and powerful music video. She has such a way of saying things in a way that they touch your heart. 

 

Just Let Me Cry by Hilary Weeks.  Another amazing Hilary Weeks song.  I listened to this one a lot in the beginning because it described how I felt so well, and helped me to feel more justified in my tears.  So many of the lyrics were exactly what I was thinking.  One of my favorite parts is when it says "I have felt joy, the kind that makes my heart want to sing.  And so my tears are not a surrender, I'll feel that way again.  But for now ... for this moment ... just let me cry." I love it.

 

Swim by Jack's Mannequin.  This song was a new find.  I love the message, I love the music.  I find it to be so soothing.  

Stronger by Sara Evans.  Of course I have heard this song before, and I have always liked it.  However when it came on the radio a few months ago I connected with it and it found a place in my heart.  I really hoped that she was right, and that I would get stronger and it would get easier.  Turns out she was right :)

Those are some of the songs that I found most helpful as I went through my personal battle.  Of course I have some really good, angry break-up music as well that I have enjoyed (thanks, Ash!) but these are the more inspirational ones that have helped me to pick myself up and move on.  I have also gained a great appreciation for the way music can touch our minds and spirits when nothing else can.  Music can be a truly powerful thing.