Well, my friends, by now you know that I really enjoy listening to the music of Christian artist Matthew West. A while ago I wrote about a new album that he was working on where the premise of it was that he wanted to hear the different "life stories" of people, and from those letters and emails, he would write his next album's songs.
Drum roll, please.... that new album has been released this week, and it is as good as I've been expecting! Better! MW is such a talented singer & songwriter with an uncanny ability to tell an amazing story in a song, but to also be able to properly include the "God story" in each one also. The album is called "The Story of Your Life" and it's available in stores and i-Tunes.
While all of the songs are really great, some of the ones that really stand out are the title track, which kicks of the album appropriately so; "My Own Little World," that tells stories about sharing ourselves with others; "One Less," that describes how families are able to, by God's grace, adopt kids from around the world and reduce the number of broken hearts by one (or three, actually!); and "Two Houses," that describes the pain of divorce through the eyes of those who never really wanted it in the first place, and are fed the lines: "Look on the bright side, you have two Christmases, now!" Yeah, right...
But all in all, as I said, it's an incredible album, and I'm sure you're going to hear more about it from me. Either blaring from my office, or referred to in sermons, or (oh, I really hope) played in worship sometime.
Receive God's desired peace and joy that can only come from a relationship with Christ,
Pastor D
