What We're Listening To Wednesday - Jesus Culture Leadership Podcasts

I recently found and began listening to Jesus Culture's Leadership Podcasts on my iphone podcast app.  It's been eye opening(or rather ear opening), challenging and I've been learning a lot about what being a leader looks like for myself now and even for what I'd hope to look like as a leader in the future.  It's not just for the cliched "leader", we are all leaders in one way or another.  Whether a pastor leading his congregation, a leader of a country, or a leader of the home, we lead everyday, if even in the most minute of ways.  I'd really like to encourage you to listen to these podcasts.  They have bonus features such as: book recommendations, music and even a little sports section...yet it is the featured topic that is worth a listen for sure.  If you don't have an iphone to download the app, go check out this website and take a listen.

http://new.jesusculture.com/podcast/archive/

Christy

What We're Listening To Wednesday - Give me a song

Sometimes, there are no words that can/need be spoken.  Just a song.

Love,
Christy Creative Dreamer Dawn

What We're Listening To Wednesday - Rejoice and Lament

I find myself drawn to this song for a few reasons. 

#1.  It is like poetry...and I love poetry ;)

#2.  I like the word lament.  I sort of knew what it meant and being the nerd that I can be sometimes, I love looking up words and their definition.  This is what I got: 

la·ment: to express sorrow, regret, or unhappiness about something

#3.  There is a time/season to feel out your feelings.  You're allowed to feel.  Just don't get stuck and dwell on your feelings.  Move through the process, you can still thrive through the process of pain, hurt, sadness...just make sure you continue to move and push forward.  

#4.  When the season of lamenting is done...REJOICE.  

Don't forget that through the lamenting, you can still have peace, joy and love.  If you are walking through a season of lamenting, lean on God, trust in Him, continue to ask Him for the best, continue to hope, believe, and dream.  Let your suffering produce deeper roots in Him, let your sadness/hurt from the past catapult you towards a bright future.  God's hand will never stop moving in your life if you allow it, He will continue to bless you even in your time of lamenting and when you look back, you will see that those feelings, each and every single one of them...got you to where you are today.  

Rejoicing with you, 

Christy Creative Dreamer Dawn

What We're Listening To Wednesday - Explode My Soul

What We're Listening To Wednesday

This whole album is worth a listen, but this song in particular has captivated me.

Explode my soul is an awakening, a calling upon my spirit.  The words seem like they were stolen from the depths of my very being.  Every time I play this song, I feel myself wanting to run down a sidewalk shouting "explode my soul...explode my soul, Lord."  I've decided against the shouting out loud in public scenario.  Yet I continue to sing this from a place that is being changed, transformed, challenged, encouraged, restored, healed and moving towards an explosion that will I'm sure, shake things up :)

I hope you find this song to be of encouragement.  Maybe you'll find your spirit drawn to another song, or perhaps you'll interpret the lyrics differently and they'll mean something entirely opposite of what they mean to me.  None the less...be blessed ♥

Love,
Christy Creative Dreamer Dawn

P.S., please share in the comments what you are loving listening to, we'd love to hear :)