Hold my mule! aka What are you shouting 'bout John?

Hold my mule!

Song by: Shirley Caesar

Lamentations 3:21-23 – “Great is thy faithfulness Lord!”

  ** Song about a man named John praising God in his field**

Old School Gospel sometimes it takes you there.

 Well for several months a few months ago I was feeling “Mighty low,” like Sophia in the Color Purple.  Sadness and depression became my new normal.  But the little ounce of light in me wouldn’t die out.  I knew this wasn’t where I was supposed to be and I had to get out of it.  So I asked people around me to pray for me and I still didn’t feel a shift.  I thought came to me to wake up listening to Gospel music, to start my day in praise.  To praise God in my circumstance.  Isn’t that what they say do?  I looked at my Pandora list and went straight old school save me Lawd – Georgia Mass Choir.

The music covered my house every room filled up all the dark places and started shining light.  While I was getting my coffee a song I use to love as a child came on.  “Hold my mule” by Shirley Caesar..  I was taken back to wonderful times of breakfast cooking in the kitchen and gospel playing in the background.  Then I came to my now and  I looked around my house and reflected as shouting John did.  I’m forty years old – My momma is still alive.  My brother’s and sister’s love me.  I’ve got a little girl who is a prayer warrior.  I’ve got a Toyota Echo that blows heat in the winter and cool air in the summer and keeps on ticking at 207,000.  And as I glanced at my full fridge knowing that I didn’t have to eat anything in there because I have the means  to go out and get whatever I wanted. I'm fully dressed with a wadrobe to spare.  It's the little things that add up and make a wonderful life.  All these glories outshined any darkness.  My life is alright, real good, right nice!

You may not shout in your church; you might not do the dance down the aisle, but inside your own house with Pandora blasting you are the soloist, you are the music director you are the dance leader spinning down the aisle with your arms raised – “I feel like praising praising Him!” 

In times of sadness, depression, anger, when you feel you just can’t go on.  What song does it for you?  What songs take you to His feet and reminds you that you are wonderfully made and great is his faithfulness? 

Here is mine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHpSM0PXuAE

What’s yours? 

All glory to God! Love - Nene
P.S. - Thank you Marlene, you are such a blessing to me.