Chinese New Year was Feb. 3, and we had some friends over to celebrate the next night. Asian food potluck = deliciousness! And I got to check off #17 from my 30 Before 30 list too! Of course, we couldn't resist dressing Ellie up in her Chinese New Year best too.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
An Extraordinary Life?
Update: Watch a video of the song called "Extraordinary Life" in the post "An Extraordinary Life, Part 2".
My life looks very ordinary. I'm a wife and a stay-at-home mom living in a town in Texas a lot of people have never heard of. I give my daughter a bottle 4x a day, cook dinner, hang with friends, clean my house, lead Young Life. Before Ellie, I worked and did the normal 8 to 5 thing. See? I'm totally ordinary.
And then there's this songwriting thing. I often view it as my ticket out of "ordinary" and into "extraordinary." I mean, what if I could write a song that some famous rock star recorded? Yes...that would make me extraordinary. I would be doing something extraordinary for God, right? All this time spent writing and singing would be for something. It would be my day job, and I would start to love answering the common question "what do you do?" and I would start to love being introduced as a "professional songwriter." I would be extraordinary.
Wow. Don't I sound like a terrible person? Lately, I've felt convicted about this lie... the lie that we must do something extraordinary for God, the lie that ordinary is not enough.
The truth is, we should not focus so much on being extraordinary, but on being extraordinarily faithful to God in the ordinary moments on the most ordinary of days.
There is more to this story, and I'll post more about it in the coming days. But, until then I want to leave you with the lyrics of a new song I wrote a few weeks ago as I was thinking about these things. I hope it encourages you.
My life looks very ordinary. I'm a wife and a stay-at-home mom living in a town in Texas a lot of people have never heard of. I give my daughter a bottle 4x a day, cook dinner, hang with friends, clean my house, lead Young Life. Before Ellie, I worked and did the normal 8 to 5 thing. See? I'm totally ordinary.
And then there's this songwriting thing. I often view it as my ticket out of "ordinary" and into "extraordinary." I mean, what if I could write a song that some famous rock star recorded? Yes...that would make me extraordinary. I would be doing something extraordinary for God, right? All this time spent writing and singing would be for something. It would be my day job, and I would start to love answering the common question "what do you do?" and I would start to love being introduced as a "professional songwriter." I would be extraordinary.
Wow. Don't I sound like a terrible person? Lately, I've felt convicted about this lie... the lie that we must do something extraordinary for God, the lie that ordinary is not enough.
The truth is, we should not focus so much on being extraordinary, but on being extraordinarily faithful to God in the ordinary moments on the most ordinary of days.
There is more to this story, and I'll post more about it in the coming days. But, until then I want to leave you with the lyrics of a new song I wrote a few weeks ago as I was thinking about these things. I hope it encourages you.
So, what's your story? What's your ticket out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary? Are you ok with being ordinary in the eyes of the world, knowing that you are extraordinarily made by an extraordinary God? Are you extraordinarily faithful in the ordinary moments?
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Top 4
Guess what?! I'm 25% done with my crazy goal of writing and recording a song for every book of the Bible before I'm 30 (on 11/11/11). Whew! It's been a fun ride so far. I've posted 18 songs from 16 different books. Only 50 left!
To celebrate, I've posted 4 of my favorite songs from the "first quarter". These are all free downloads, so download away and enjoy. Thank you to those who have followed along over on the Scripture to Music Collective site. I've had a few new songs from other songwriters too, so it's been fun!
If you're interested in hearing the other songs I've posted, please go here. You'll find songs from Nahum, Habakkuk, Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Revelation, and more.
Strong as Death (Song of Solomon) by Caroline Cobb
Woman on the Roof (2 Samuel) by Caroline Cobb
Philippians 2 by Caroline Cobb
All the Stars by Caroline Cobb
To celebrate, I've posted 4 of my favorite songs from the "first quarter". These are all free downloads, so download away and enjoy. Thank you to those who have followed along over on the Scripture to Music Collective site. I've had a few new songs from other songwriters too, so it's been fun!
If you're interested in hearing the other songs I've posted, please go here. You'll find songs from Nahum, Habakkuk, Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Revelation, and more.
Strong as Death (Song of Solomon) by Caroline Cobb
Woman on the Roof (2 Samuel) by Caroline Cobb
Philippians 2 by Caroline Cobb
All the Stars by Caroline Cobb
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