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Since teewee hasn’t posted any new SOTD for a while I thought I would share a song. But this is quite a different genre than what he has been sharing lately.

So heard the new The Fray song on the radio and thought it was pretty good. Looked up what the song meant and apparently:

You Found Me is a tough song for me. Its about the disappointment, the heart ache, the let down that comes with life. Sometimes you’re let down, sometimes you’re the one who lets someone else down. It gets hard to know who you can trust, who you can count on… It demands so much of my faith to keep believing, keep hoping in the unseen. Sometimes the tunnel has a light at the end, but usually they just look black as night. This song is about that feeling, and the hope that I still have, buried deep in my chest.

Thought that was pretty cool… I always knew The Fray were Christians, so I decided to look up more on them. Apparently Christianity Today did an interview with them in 2006. What they said was really cool and inspiring. Apparently the band was largely formed in Denver churches where the band led worship (so they weren’t just “Christians” but they actually served in worship too!). And “The band avoided Christian record labels, saying God called them to the secular market instead.”

I always wondered what Christian secular bands (like Switchfoot or Lifehouse per se) would say for people saying why are they doing secular music. I think they gave one of the best answers I have heard – read the interview if you want the full details, but basically the answer is their jobs are musicians – they are not pastors, not preachers, not missionaries – just like a Christian painter does not have to paint Jesus in every picture, a Christian musician does not have to sing about Jesus in every song. Paint (or sing) well enough and people will ask you why and how you do it.

Anyhow just thought all this was very inspiring and wanted to share. The song’s arrangement was also very inspiring on how I can incorporate it into worship too…. hehe.

BREAKING NEWS – Steve Jobs won’t take the stage at the upcoming Macworld Conference & Expo in January. Phil Schiller will be delivering the keynote instead – and it will be the last Macworld keynote address delivered by Apple. Apple also announced it will no longer participate in Macworld Conference and Expo after the upcoming conference in January, moving away from a forum it has used to showcase new products.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7772902.stm

Chinese girl gets ‘kiss of deaf’

A young Chinese woman was left partially deaf following a passionate kiss from her boyfriend.
The 20-something from Zhuhai in Guangdong province arrived at hospital having completely lost the hearing in her left ear, said local reports.
The incident prompted a series of articles in the local media warning of the dangers of excessive kissing.
“While kissing is normally very safe, doctors advise people to proceed with caution,” wrote the China Daily.
The doctor who treated the girl in hospital was quoted in the paper explaining what had happened.
“The kiss reduced the pressure in the mouth, pulled the eardrum out and caused the breakdown of the ear.”
The chorus of warnings was echoed by the Shanghai Daily, which wrote: “A strong kiss may cause an imbalance in the air pressure between two inner ears and lead to a broken ear drum.”
The young woman is expected to regain her full hearing within about two months.

A CBC article today showed that happiness is contagious. Here is my synopsis:
Your agreement to these 4 statements determines if you’re considered “happy”:

“I feel hopeful about the future.”
“I am happy.”
“I enjoy life.”
“I feel that I am just as good as other people.”

Cool statistics:
“Happiness extended to three degrees of separation, from friends to friends of friends”
“If a social contact such as spouse, sibling or friend was happy, it increased the likelihood that you were happy by 15 per cent”
“Each happy friend boosts your own happiness by nine per cent”
“Having grumpy friends decreased the chances by about seven per cent”

So if I get 11 happy friends and get rid of all my grumpy friends, maybe I’ll feel happy 😀

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/04/happiness.html

Guess who I saw last weekend!