Caleb's Blog Journal

Although I thought I was getting better I've still been ill since Wednesday. So I haven't got a whole lot done, but it has allowed me to get some of my cross-stitch done. Being sick hasn't given me much energy to do a whole lot. So my room is a mess, haven't kept up with my exercises, am behind on karate, haven't practiced piano as much.... o well? Haven't been using Paint.net or GIMP for a while either- kinda ran out of ideas. With what I know I only gets so far because I've been teaching myself which takes a lot longer. Plus, I don't have as much time to learn with it because I've been working more shifts, yet I'm thankful for the extra money I'm earning for college.

This is how far I've got on the Lord's Prayer in cross-stitch - I would never have done it if A) unless this person who asked me to do it was a friend of the family and B) if I had known how big it was: I finished all the green stitches:









Another food for thought that I have thought of posting on in the past but haven't got round to it. Have you ever spent the time and thought of how many variations of one song there have been? I know in church hymns there are special arrangements but have you ever heard a song that was the same lyrics but a different tune or melody that sounded just as good or better within 50 years - not just hundreds of years?


For instance, one my favorite songs when sung in variation (I don't really care for the oldest versions) is Somewhere Over the Rainbow:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0-um0pHTAg




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm5sUlOuJ0U





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19mDVt6q6Vg (copying Izzy's reworking of the song)





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSI0ZStEnfw (my favorite version)





Just makes me think. If songs that aren't Christian in origin that people sing that are saved or not can be this beautiful/inspiring don't we as Christians have a special commitment to fill in the gap with the songs we sing and write that are so devoted solely to God that they show His goodness and beauty to others?




Anyway take care dear readers, bye for now.