October 12 2018

Praise (Five Minute Friday)

Music is one of my favorite ways to Praise God. While I love singing the classic hymns in church, I have found I enjoy singing along to contemporary Christian music even more. My favorite song is 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) by Matt Redman.
Here are some of the words from that song:

And on that day
When my strength is failing
The end draws near
And my time has come
Still my soul will
Sing Your praise unending
Ten thousand years
And then forevermore
Forevermore
Songwriters: Jonas Myrin / Matt Redman
10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) lyrics © Capitol Christian Music Group

Here is the version with the lyrics and chords:

If you are going to get a song stuck in your head today, let it be this one.

This post is part of the weekly Five Minute Friday link-up!
The prompt this week is: Praise
The assignment: Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. Just write.

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November 9 2017

Music Makes It Fun

One night, as I was doing one of my least favorite chores, folding laundry, I had what FlyLady would call a “God Breeze”.

I turned the little clock radio on in the laundry room (59-minute sleep timer, so I don’t have to remember to turn it off). Just as I opened the dryer to fold a load of towels I heard a song start, then as it ended I was done folding the whole load already! I thought, WOW! it only took me one song to fold that load of towels! Then I thought of the old TV show “Name That Tune” and how they used to say, “I can name that tune in 3 notes” or whatever. Then I thought maybe instead of using the timer to help get disliked chores done, I could use music and try to guess how many songs it would take to do the chore, then see if I am right by actually testing the guess I just made. In my opinion, music always makes work more fun (even Snow White and the 7 dwarfs used to whistle while they worked!)

I thought I’d share this idea in case it helps any others to not dread the old dreaded tasks anymore.

What is your favorite tip for making housework fun? Share it below in the comments.

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