Fleetwood Mac is one of my favouriteeeeest bands!! So much so that I cannot wait to name my daughter Stevie...much to everyone's dismay...perhaps I'll name my son Nick too :P
My friend, Gaby, introduced this song to me today and I'm in love...I've been playing it on repeat. It is a cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams".
I'm sure most people know the band Bastille, but the female vocalist I do not recognise. Her name is Gabrielle Aplin and her vocal range in this song is stunning oh my word!!!
This prompted me to research Gabrielle Aplin on Youtube and I came across her original song "Home". It is simply beautiful. Aaah I love her voice!! And she is our age, pretty cool :D
One of my favourite South African bands of all time! I have been a devout fan since mid high school and their song "Fixation Girl" was what my iPod chose to play to me this morning to wake me up. I am very proud of my collection of fan photos with the band :)
Tomorrow, my dad will be going for his second session of chemotherapy. In all honesty it has been anything, but easy. He is experiencing plenty of the side effects including depression, weight loss, extreme nausea and stomach pain. I do believe that the only thing keeping him going is his faith, positivism and family/friend support, but there's not many things more horrible than seeing your dad in that kind of state. My dad is an extreme optimist and he has made use of this trait to bring us up. One of his favourite things to say to us when we are down or stressed is "take on day at a time and one step at a time". So besides its terrible cheesiness, I am dedicating "One step at a time" by Jordin Sparks to my dad's journey. I remember it being on the radio as we drove out of Grahamstown after dropping my older sister off for her first year of varsity. My dad phoned her and placed the phone microphone next to the car radio speaker. That's something I've always remembered, so perhaps that means it may have been good advice.
So, this is a dedication to my Pappa Samuel. Hopefully we can invest in a beanie...I'm not sure the turban-look works so well for him...
When I was in Grade 9, I decided to get confirmed at my local church, Nahoon Methodist Church. I'm one of those that was brought up in a Christian home and sort of wandered around aimlessly in this kind of lifestyle. I decided to be confirmed, because my sister had been, two years earlier and it simply seemed like the right thing to do. I cannot say that confirmation was the sole breaking point for me when I realised that I was looking at Christianity as a religion and not as a relationship with God. Because I have had many situations concerning suffering and pain that has showed me God's love. However, confirmation was definitely a part of that and one of the greatest influences that guided me in my confirmation journey, was my youth leader. He was such a typical teenager, even though he was ten years older than me. He was the last of everyone that I expected to be a leader in the church, but it was because of his unconventionality that showed me how cool of a guy, God is. Darrel, my youth leader, showed me that Christianity is not full of rules and demands and that expressing one's love for God through the act of worship can be done in any way that you like. He showed my fellow confirmees and me that God likes it when we put ourselves into our worship and so, if you fall asleep while singing hymns where every secondeth wordeth endseth with the letters "eth" then God is all for you spicing it up a bit :) I've continued to see God in a new light throughout my life. Some odd things can happen when it comes to God: He can manifest gems or gold dust can start falling from the ceiling or appear on people as they are praying/worshiping. A friend of mine asked the His People pastor why God causes these things to happen and the short answer is, cause He can. My dad always tells me that God has a sense of humour and He likes to have fun with us too. The pastor picked up a coin, pressed it against the wall and then prayed. The coin stuck to the wall. When I saw this for myself, I was like "WHY?" Sticking coins on to walls is not going to help anything...but the reality is you can never put God in a box and He doesn't want to box us either. So, if we want to tell God that He is awesome by sticking a coin on to a wall or screaming out his name in our heavy metal band, then He thinks that is just awesome!
Below are some awesome songs that many would expect to be anything, but Christian.
If none are of your interest, at least listen to the Underoath one the whole way through :)
