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While I'm Waiting

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Before I post this, let me take a moment to explain my sporadic posting... I live in the middle of nowhere and do not have internet at home (except the 2 gigabytes on my phone). So, I'm pretty much having to just post when I can. Plus, I started my sophomore year of college two weeks ago and it's been busy... Anyway, that's my excuse. Moving on... Today, I'm going to be merging Musical Monday with Wednesdays in God's Word (is that what I decided to call it??) because I have internet today and it makes sense. This is the song that's been on my heart all day.  "While I'm Waiting" by John Waller Lately, I've been struggling with an old battle of mine -loneliness. Well... maybe not loneliness as much as just singleness. I have amazing, awesome, wonderful friends whom I love dearly, so I'm not exactly "lonely," but being single gets to you after a while. I did the math the other day, y'all. I have been single for ...

When God Has a Playlist

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In the following post, each song title contains a link to that song if you want to listen to it :)   I really didn't want to hit "Shuffle" last night. I'd just spent an hour and a half sitting in the Beef  'O' Brady's Parking lot with three friends from my Bible study group talking, without reservations, about the things that most of us are afraid to talk about. Discussing questions that no one really knew the answer to, but we were all hesitant to ask. Things that some of us are afraid to ask because we are afraid of our own answers. It had been powerful. It had been enlightening... and as I got into my car to drive home I felt like my vulnerability needed to be guarded. As I looked down at my iPhone, I just couldn't bring myself to hit "Shuffle."   Now my music library has been "baptized" for years. I think I have six songs (maybe less) on my phone that aren't Christian songs and none of the six have anything in th...