There's a playlist on my Apple music app that I turn to when my heart needs help. It starts with two beautiful, powerful songs that we sang at our son's memorial service. Because of the deeply personal connection to those songs, they usually move me to tears. This can be very healing and needed. Also, it's important that I not sink down that hole and vanish.
I built this playlist to meet my heart in that hard and tender place, and then to gently lead me back to a place of peace. As I listened to these songs last night, I thought they might be helpful to others.
Those first few songs take me to such a worshipful, healing place. I've added others that maintain that sense of love and worship. Here's the full list:
O Come to the Altar (Elevation Worship)
Reckless Love (Cory Asbury)
Thy Will (Hillary Scott & the Scott Family)
Do It Again (Elevation Worship)
There Was Jesus (Zach Williams & Dolly Parton)
{the whole album by Elevation Worship: Acoustic Sessions 2017}
Songs on the album:
-O Come to the Altar [again]
-Fullness
-Resurrecting
-Yahweh
-There Is A Cloud
-Yours (Glory and Praise)
-Overcome
-Here As In Heaven
-Mighty Cross
-Do It Again
-Here In the Presence
Songs from a different playlist that I'm thinking about adding because of how they breathe life to my heart:
Who You Say I Am (Hillsong Worship)
So Will I (Hillsong Worship)
Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace) (Hillsong Worship)
O Praise the Name (Anastasis) (Hillsong Worship)
Everything (Lauren Daigle)
Rescue (Lauren Daigle)
Fight Song/Amazing Grace (Piano Guys &Wasatch and District Pipe Band)
I hope you find something here that comforts and uplifts your heart.
Sharing my heart as I walk the road of grief. "The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit." Psalm 34:18
Friday, May 22, 2020
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