If My Life Were . . .

Some of you may know Dr. Mrs. Peterson from Eastern, and anyone who took the marriage class will know what I'm talking about. We watched Truly, Madly, Deeply and she told us that in order for anyone to really understand her they have to see this movie. I thought that was really powerful. It's amazing enough when someone finds a type of media that really captures who they are, and then to be able to turn around and show someone else is just incredible. I mean the movie gave sooo much insight into this woman. I couldn't help but put myself in her shoes and think "Well if this movie were about me . . . " AH! Might be hard to understand what I'm trying to get at, but insights like that are very moving.

In the past I most resonated with Jennifer Knapp's album Kansas which I still love.

Sean and I were on our way up to my parents house . . . oh it may have been when we went up for Christmas . . . but anyway. We were shuffling through CD's and decided to listen to Kendall Payne's album Paper Skin. We love her. It was the first time we went through the whole thing and discussed the songs, well not all of them but we were talking about some of them. I'm not sure if this was the first time it dawned on me, but I realized this album really resonates with who I am. It has a bit of everything. It touches on where I've been, how far I've come, where I'm at, and where I want my life to go and see it going. It made me realize that if people could really connect with or understand that album then they can understand me in a powerful way.

Sigh. I just love finding external things that really truly connect with what's going on inside. It's like being able to give someone a business card that has all the info they need to know on it. If for whatever reason people really wanted to get to know who I am I would have to direct them to Kendall Payne's album. I just wish I had written that album myself. Haha. Now that someone has said it so well I don't know if I could say it myself in my own words. I would love to be able to do that especially in the form of music, but . . . hey I can't be good at everything . . . words are not my strong point, at least not artistically so.

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