A Road Less Travelled

Yesterday I was driving to the easiest babysitting job ever and as I drove I was switching back and forth between our radio presets trying to find something I felt like listening to. I settled on a station and enjoyed the song and then decided to stick around for the next song. It was a woman with a powerful voice accompanied by a piano. The woman was singing to someone who had died, I was guessing her mother. Today I looked up the lyrics. There are two parts that particularly resonated with me.

I would hold you in my arms
I would take the pain away
Thank you for all you’ve done
Forgive all your mistakes
There’s nothing I wouldn’t do
To hear your voice again
Sometimes I want to call you but I know you won’t be there

and

Would you tell me I was wrong?
Would you help me understand?
Are you looking down upon me?
Are you proud of who I am?
There’s nothing I wouldn’t do
To have just one more chance
To look into your eyes and see you looking back

As I listened to the song I started crying because it expressed so well what I feel sometimes. It was a lovely song. After the song I listened carefully to the hear the artist and title of the song. It was ‘Hurt’ by Christina Aguilera. I was not expecting this at all. I didn’t think this station played Christina Aguilera and I didn’t think I could ever like a song by her.

I am something of a music snob. This doesn’t mean that there are types of music that I think are best, but that there are types of music that I am sure can have no good purpose. Raquel will probably laugh at me for that because we have had numerous discussions about music and I was firmly on the side of “God made everything and called it good,” but it seems that I too bear my share of hypocrisy.

There is really only one type of music that I would declare has no lasting value. Boy bands, girl bands, and solo acts of either gender whose only purpose seems to be to prance about on stage and make the opposite gender lustful. Such as Christina Aguilera. They have very little to no talent and they are what most young children in America want to be. I could imagine no good coming out of this type of music. I would even say there could be some good in country music before I would find any good in boy/girl bands. But here is this song that I found to be very moving and very powerful and it was sung by a woman whose music I have always considered to be completely without merit.

I seems that I need to repent of my snobbery. If I declare that we are all made in the image of the Creator and that we create reflects back to Him somehow then I need to act like I believe that. With discernment, to be sure. But without those prejudices I cling to that are nothing more than snobbery.