My Top 11 Feel Good Songs

This isn't a list of "happy songs" (I may or may not listen to many full out happy songs). However, this is a list of what I would call "feel good songs". These songs either pep me up when I'm tired or help keep a good mood going. Hopefully, this list is more fun than my sad song list and probably more fun than the angry song list I kind of want to make. These songs are in order of how peppy they are/how much I love them.

Side Note:
Yes, you will be seeing some artist that were on my last list. What can I say? I'm loyal to the musicians I love.

11. Bess Rogers – “I Don't Worry”
While Bess sings about many things in this song that I do actually worry about I can't help but feel happy while hearing how she doesn't worry about these things. Why? Because Bess sings about it all in such an uplifting way and with such a catchy tune! "I don't worry 'bout my job, let them throw me out on the street. Let them cut my pay, I won't grovel at their feet!"



10. Bon Jovi – “Livin' On A Prayer”
Holy Moly! I'm actually listing a "classic" song, meaning something from before 2000! Wow. It is from 1986 to be exact. Also, I would like to mention that I was a fan of this song long before Glee did their "Start Me Up/Livin' On A Prayer" mash up. Oh those crazy kids. Anyway... I love this song for its rockin' beat and for its story about a couple who sticks together through the hard times."Whooah! We're half way there. Whooah! Livin' on a prayer. Take my hand and we'll make it I swear - livin' on a prayer."



9. Family Force 5 – “Replace Me”
"My Batteries died sometime ago. Gotta heart shaped box where they must go..." I just hear the opening line to this song and I want to dance. You will see a trend here, I relate songs that make me want to dance to being feel good songs. However, "Replace Me" is more that a great dance song. This song also has lyrics that I find very encouraging, about how we can only be "recharged" by God. "Desperation. Needing You. Every last breath I scream for You.
Shatter me into a million pieces. Make me new."



8. P!nk – “Raise Your Glass”
I have to be careful with P!nk songs because they can easily slip from feel good songs into "Yeah, I'm angry. What are you going to do about it?" songs. However, I think "Raise Your Glass" is truly a feel good song. It is about feeling good about who you are no matter what others think (kind of like Weezer's "Buddy Holly"). And while P!nk may show she is proud to be her by raising her glass, I prefer to do it by singing very loudly to this song. "So raise your glass if you are wrong, in all the right ways. All my underdogs, we will never be never be anything but loud." PS I have no link to this song, because though I downloaded the clean version from iTunes I can't find one on line. I don't care if you listen to the origianl version, but I thought I'd skip on the link since swearing doesn't make some people feel good.

7. Weezer - "Buddy Holly"
This song has such a great melody it would be a feel good song even if the lyrics were just "La la la la la". We get a bonus though because the lyrics are clever and cheering. Basically I don't have much to say about this song that it won’t say for itself when you listen to it. Oh and the music vedio? Epic. "Ooo wee ooo, I look just like Buddy Holly. Oh oh, and you're Mary Tyler Moore. I don't care what they say about us anyway. I don't care about that."



6. Ingrid Michaelson – “Far Away”
Sometimes a feel good song is a feel good song because it takes you away from your real life, right? Or is that just me? Like a good book or a great movie this song brings me somewhere where... well where "The water is blue and the people are new". Ingrid has a magical way of taking rather forlorn lyrics and turning them into something that feels good. "I will live my life as a lobsterman's wife on an island in the blue bay. He will take care of me, he will smell like the sea, and close to my heart he'll always stay."



5. Florence + The Machine – “Dog Days Are Over”
Florence + The Machine's songs are often peculiar and sometimes even creepy and her music videos are straight up weird, I love this song. I love how she changes the pace of the song from fast to slow. I love how she stops the music for a moment just to come back in full blast. I have literally made a fool of myself driving along and seat dancing in my car to this song, while also head bobbing and using my steering wheel as a drum set. If that doesn't make for a feel good song, than I don't know what does. I will mention though that the lyrics are kind of... less than feel good. Yes, it is about a woman who "finds" happiness, but only after it hits her like a train on a track... or something. I don't know what this song is talking about and I don't care. "Happiness hit her, like a bullet in the back. Struck from a great height by someone who should know better than that."


4. Sara Bareilles – “Uncharted”
This isn't a happy song. It just isn't, most of Sara Bareilles songs aren't. However it is a feel good song because it motivates me to get off my rear and start making things happen instead of waiting on circumstances or other people. It also makes me feel proud of being an independent person instead of focusing on the loneliness that independence can sometimes bring. The lyrics are astounding. "Stuck under this ceiling I made, I can't help but feeling... I'm going down, follow if you want. I won't just hang around, like you'll show me where to go. I'm already out of foolproof ideas. So don't ask me how to get started, it's all uncharted."



3. Eric Hutchinson – “You Don't Have To Believe Me”
For this I'd like to just list an artist's name instead of a song, however, that would not follow the rules of the list. So instead of just saying "Eric Hutchinson" I'll say, "You Don't Have To Believe Me". However, I had to listen to a bunch of Eric H songs to decide which was the most feel goodish. Besides the fact, that unless your soul is dead, just listening to this song should make you want to dance, it also gives a motivation pep talk! I dare you not to feel good while listen to it. "You don't have to believe me I'm just speaking my mind, you look lovely as always, you get that all the time. You don't have to believe me when I tell you that I'm impressed, but you sure better believe me when I say you deserve the best." Ahhh yes, I look forward to Eric and my upcoming nuptials, now I just need to meet him...



2. Lenka – “Knock Knock”
I could tell you a loooong story about how Lenka's song "Bring Me Down" actually helped me make a huge life decision, however, we'll just stick with talking about "Knock Knock". Do you ever listen to secular songs and they suddenly, they seem like little prayers? Lenka's music is like that to me. Though I haven't found anywhere that she is a Christian, her songs often point my direction back to the Lord, this song is no exception. I love the upbeat sound of "Knock Knock" and the lyrics about someone who she can always turn to, to make things better. "When life had locked me out I turned to you, so open the door. ‘Cause you're all I need right now, it's true, nothin' works like you."



1. David Crowder – “SMS (Shine)”
Okay, maybe it is unfair to add a song to this list because it's music video fills me with joy... but "SMS (Shine)" does that and has a lot of other things going for it as well. This song reminds me of a psalm; it starts by asking something from God and latter talks about those things as already given. I love it, I don't really know what else to say besides that. "Shine Your light so I can see You. Pull me up, I need to be near You. Hold me, I need to feel loved. Can You overcome this heart that's overcome?"

My Top 11 Sad Songs

Oh the randomness that is me. For reasons beyond even my understanding I decided to make a list of some of my favorite sad songs. These are not the saddest songs of all time or anything, I mean I think the oldest on my list is from 2003 or something.

While doing this I found that some songs I thought would be on this list aren’t because when you listen to the lyrics they are kind of hopeful (like Sara Bareilles’s “The Light”). Other songs didn’t make it because they have sad lyrics but sound peppy (think any 1 out of every 3 Rocket Summer Songs). Songs on this list sound sad and have lyrics to match. Also, no artist could have more than one song on the list (if they could A Fine Frenzy, Regina Spektor and Ben Folds would have taken the whole list… Side note: Why is Ben Folds so dang sad?)
With all that being said here are my top 11 sad songs. Kind of in order of sadness, kind of in order of how much I like them.

Enjoy… or something. ;)

11. “The Boy Who Never” – Landon Pigg
“The Boy Who Never” is about a boy and the things he never did because he was worried about failure. This song is sad to me because I can relate. I’m not always like this, but I think we all can get to the place sometimes where we don’t even try because we are afraid of how things will turn out. “He taught himself how not to lose. By never really trying to win.” Ouch.


10. "Telescope Eyes"- Eisley
Okay, like many Eisley songs this one kind of crosses from sad to creepy. I don’t think I even have to explain why it is sad, “Oh, you humor me today, calling me out to play with your telescope eyes, metal teeth I can't be seen with you (you freak).”*punch in the stomach* The thing is though, even while describing someone too embarrassing to be seen with the singer confesses that they are “Just like you, you know”. Yeah, depressing.


9. "Because of You"- Kelly Clarkson
When I first heard this song I thought Kelly was singing about an ex-lover and the song didn’t really make sense to me. However, then I heard she is actually singing to her parents who apparently split up or had an rough marriage and I was like, “Holy crud, this song is sad” and instantly loved it… because I’m strange. Also the music video here is heartrending. “I watched you die, I heard you cry, every night in your sleep. I was so young you should have known better than to lean on me.”
PS This song is also sad to me because it reminds me of when Kelly Clarkson use to be good. *sigh*



8. "Title and Registration" - Death Cab for Cutie
Like many others, I went through a huge Death Cab for Cutie phase. I think I listened to only them, Eisley and the sound track from “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” one summer. However, the only song of theirs that really sticks out to me now is what I call the “glove compartment song”. A song about a guy who finds old pictures in his glove compartment that reminds him of “better times”. “I was searching for some legal document, as the rain beat down on the hood. When I stumbled upon pictures I tried to forget, and that's how this idea was drilled into my head.”




7. "Brick" - Ben Folds Five
Someone told me this song was about an abortion, and while I haven’t asked Ben Folds about this personally, I believe it. To me it is one of the most hopeless songs in this list. I can only listen to it every once in awhile, however, with that being said it is an amazing song and am interesting perspective. “As weeks went by, it showed that she was not fine. They told me, ‘Son it's time to tell the truth.’ She broke down and I broke down, cause I was tired of lying.”


6. "Keep Breathing" - Ingrid Michaelson
Oh how I LOVE Ingrid. She has some of the saddest peppy songs ever. Ingrid and Lenka, they may sound upbeat, but not so much. However this song has a beautiful and sad melody that matches the lyrics. “The storm is coming but I don't mind. People are dying, I close my blinds. All that I know is I'm breathing now. I want to change the world... instead I sleep. I want to believe in more than you and me.” For more sad Ingrid wonderfulness also listen to “Breakable”, sooooo good.



5. "All I have" - The Rocket Summer
When I first got it I think I listened to The Rocket Summer’s album “Do You Feel” about 85.3 times in a row. I can be obsessive. However it wasn’t until about listen number 32 I realized that thought most of the songs have a peppy almost punk/big band sound to them the lyrics are actually deep and a little gloomy sometimes. I can be a little dense. One of my favorites of his sad-ish songs is “All I Have” because to me it is saying okay things can be stormy, what are we going to do about it? “And all I have is all of me. And it's all that I can give. Our disappointed hearts will heal. Our hearts will spill. Over you, over me, over this.”


4. "Beacon"- A Fine Fenzy
“You say your time has come, you're tired of waking up. Don't be obscene, I can't conceive of living without you.” Nice disheartening opening to a song. This song is melodic and beautiful. While it opens with someone who feels they can go on it is actually a little encouraging, telling that person that even though they can see it they are needed by so many people. I often put this one on repeat. “Burning beacon in the night. Can't feel its heat, or see its light. That single solitary guide, it must get lonely there sometimes.”


3. "Tears of the Saints"- Leeland
This song is actually somewhat hopeful, but I love it so very much that is had to make the list. “Tears of the Saints” is all about the lost and unsaved people that we as saints (Christians) should be crying out to “come back home”. The most convicting line to me is, “There are schools full of hatred. Even churches have forsaken, love and mercy. May we see this generation in a state of desperation for Your glory.” Enough said really.


2. "Chemo Limo" - Regina Spektor
Okay if this had a music video it would be #1 on this list, but as it is, it crept down to #2. “Chemo Limo” is a song about a woman dealing with cancer and how it isn’t just killing her it is bleeding her dry financially. I love the word picture of “Crispy Benjamin Franklin” representing money and how she’d rather spend money on a limo then chemo, so she does. A lot of this song it up to interpretation, but for me the most poignant part is when she sings about her four children and ends with, “and Barbara, she looks just like my mom.” It makes me think that the character in the story lost her own mother the way she fears her children are going to. “Oh my god, Barbara, she looks so much just like my mom.” Regina’s voice is so heartbreaking here it gets me every time.



1) "Gravity" - Sara Bareilles
Sara, Sara, Sara… I can’t explain how wonderful she it. “Gravity” is from her first album “Little Voice” and is one of the songs that really sold me on her. Sara says it is about losing her first true love and how she didn’t feel like she could move on from it. The lyrics are sad and tender but it is the melody and the way Sara sings it that makes it so good. I mean even in the music video she seems like she’s about to cry.“You hold me without touch. You keep me without chains. I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain.”


Okay, if you read this far I'm surprised and well, leave a comment with your favorite sad song. TIme to go listen to some happy music now!

Where is the love?

“If someone says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.”
1 John 4:20

I was in Starbucks the other day on my lunch break eating Greek yogurt and reading "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" when I couldn't help but overhear bits of a conversation nearby. Two young women were sitting near me wearing scrubs and talking about some co-worker of theirs.

"I hate her." One of the women said.
"I know everyone does." answered the other.
"No, but I mean it, I really actually hate her."

It made my stomach turn. Here where two friendly looking women, people who seemed like I could be friends with, talking about how much they hate someone!

It made me think back to when I worked at a portrait studio that specialized in team pictures. Mostly high school drill teams and cheerleaders. I had fun with these groups because the girls always love getting their pictures taken. It was the mothers that were the problem. They were viscous, standing around talking about young girls on the opposing teams (or sometimes even their daughter's team).

"She is an ugly little skank." I heard one mother say about the 15 year old daughter of a "friend". I couldn't believe I was hearing these kinds of things.

My next thought is the Facebook page of a young friend of mine. She is only about 14 and I was shocked at the language I saw on her Facebook the other day. It started with a status update calling out a boy who was mean to her and using names. Then came a 40 plus comment conversation between her and some schoolmates using language I never hear; all calling each other awful things, lashing out in anger and taking sides.

The problem to me with this kind of fierce language and emotions is that people mean it!

People are so angry all the time. Driving down the road people get angry. Misunderstanding at work and people get angry. Standing in a long line at the store people get angry. So much anger, so little compassion!

Do we ever stop to think about what kind of day that person driving so slowly is having? What about that hated co-worker of the Starbucks girls? What if everyone really does hate her? What kind of life does that mean she has? What about the 15 year old drill team member who is already being mercilessly labeled by grownups? Or the poor kid who reads those hurtful comments on Facebook and then shuts herself up in the bathroom to cry?

Where is the mercy? Where is the love? Living in the "Bible Belt" most people aren't going to go through their everyday routine without having contact with at least one "Christian", but do they know us by our love?

People are in desperate need of love. They aren’t always getting it from their family or friends and others in their life may be making it worse. When are we as Christians going to stop judging and gossiping and labeling? Maybe it is time to tell people that God loves them and then show them it is true with our actions.

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." John 13:34-35

Below is a little video I made after working on some student surveys at work. Hope it makes you stop and think, like it did for me.

Step out

So at work we have a weekly prayer/devotional time. Yup, at my job. And I don’t even work for a ministry. Anyway, my boss was talking about David & Goliath and how David stepped out on his own to do God’s will and it really made me stop and think. Thus the following thoughts on a story we all know.

A re-look at an old story. David & Goliath.
The home team: The Israelites.
They weren’t some rag-tag group of untrained men. They were fierce warriors having won against many enemies. Their leader? The first King of Israel, King Saul. Saul, the man the people loved. Saul, who stood a head taller than any man in Isreal.

The opponent: The Philistines.
Honestly, I don’t know a lot about the armies of the Philistine, besides them popping up time and time again in the Old Testament as enemies of Israel. However, I do know that Goliath was not a warrior to be taken for granted. Many scholars believe him to be over 9 feet tall, but even if this is incorrect we do know that, “He wore a bronze helmet, and his bronze coat of mail weighed 125 pounds. He also wore bronze leg armor, and he carried a bronze javelin on his shoulder. The shaft of his spear was as heavy and thick as a weaver’s beam, tipped with an iron spearhead that weighed 15 pounds.” (1 Sam. 17:5,6)

The Battle:
Each day the two armies lined up and faced each other, and then did nothing but threaten each other. The mighty army of Israelites quaked in fear at Goliath, his taunts and his threats. “When Saul and the Israelites heard this, they were terrified and deeply shaken.” (1 Sam. 17:11) No one would step forward. I wonder if the Philistines knew this would happen. Perhaps they didn’t want to go up against the Israelites as a whole so they called for just the one mightiest Israelite warrior to fight their giant.

The Israelites stood on their mountain for 40 days while the Philistines stood on theirs, no one answering the call. Not even their leader Saul whose place it should have been.

How often are we like this as Christians? We know we are mighty together. We thrive in our Christian friendships, and churches, and groups. We can conquer anything as the army of Christ. But are we willing to step out alone? To expose ourselves? To say, “I’ll leave even my fellow believers behind to defend the name of my God!” As a group we will fight, but can we stand alone?

David did.

The hero:
Enter David. Too young to even be part of the army. He was only there to bring food to his brothers. He got there just in time to see the shouting match. Each day the armies would line up to meet each other. The Israelites went with, “shouts and battle cries” and after seeing Goliath again “began to run away in fright”. (1 Sam. 17:20, 24)

For 40 days this had happened, the Israelites shouted and made noise, tried to intimidate and then ran away in fear.

How like us this is! We will gather together and shout for the Lord, we will rev each other up, and we will think we are ready for the battle— then something bigger than we had planned on gets in our way we run back in fear!

Not David.

David, just a young teenager, has a stunning response to Goliath and to his fellow Israelites, “Who is this pagan Philistine anyway, that he is allowed to defy the armies of the living God?” (1 Sam. 17:26) Who is this guy? This giant? That thinks he can defy us, God’s people?

Makes me think of the many promises God has given us.

“You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.” 1 John 4:4

“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?” Rom. 8:31

“I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.” Luke 10:19


David knew that he could take Goliath. Maybe partly it was a young boy's bravado, but David also knew who he was fighting for and he wasn’t afraid to fight alone.

Evidence that David had confidence in God and not himself is shown when he talks King Saul into letting him fight. “The Lord who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear will rescue me from this Philistine!” So, Saul let him go.

We know the story, Saul tried to give David his armor, but it didn’t fit, so David faced the mightiest warrior of the Philistine armies with a sling and five smooth stones.

One young shepherd alone, against a giant.

Even when Goliath tries to scare him David doesn’t back down, doesn’t look towards the other Israelites for help, he doesn’t try to conquer Goliath in his own strength. “You come to me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies—the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. Today the Lord will conquer you!”

Do we ever do this? Do we face the temptations, the trails, and the enemies to our faith with this kind of daring? Even if we have to face it without the security blanket of other Christians? We must have the confidence to face what is taunting us and say with nothing more than God at our back, “I will fight you!! In the name of the Lord of Heaven’s today the Lord will conquer you!”

If we don’t than we’ll just flee back to our tents, to our comfortable places of worship, to our prayer groups, to the resting army and just prepare for the next day’s useless shouting match.

In the end David knocked down his giant with a stone. And after not fitting into Saul’s armor he had the strength to lift Goliath’s sword and cut off the head of his enemy. Alone in the world’s eyes, but really he did it with God at his side.

After David’s boldness the Israelites got up and chased after the Philistines, conquering them. When King Saul saw this he asked, “Whose son is this young man?” (1 Sam. 17:55).

I want to be someone that inspires other Christians to action. I want to be someone who makes the kings of this culture stop and say, “Who is this?”

There is much to be said in favor of the body of Christ, the army of the Lord. However, sometimes it takes a single person stepping out of the comfort of the group and standing alone for God to make a difference. I mean look at Moses, Gideon, Deborah, David and many others. They stepped up when no one else would.

“After removing Saul, [God] made David their king. He testified concerning him: 'I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.” Acts 13:22


My desire is to me a woman after God’s own heart, to do everything He wants me to… even if I have to do it alone.

Words Hurt

Sometimes it is like you can see the words coming out of your mouth and you know you should stop them, but by time you have that thought, they've already reached the ears of someone else.

I wish I could just reach out, grab them and yank them back explaining, "Oops! My words got away from me!" and the other person would be like, "Oh yeah, that happens to me to." Then I'd put my words through a shredder and with a satisfying "zzzzzzzd" I'd be done with it.

Instead, we have to live with the consequences of our words. Not only can they hurt others our words can hurt ourselves. Saying something negative about someone else can back fire and make you look bad. The old idiom, "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" is basically a load of hogwash.

The Bible has a lot to say about our words and how we use them. "Death and life are in the power of the tongue", "The one who opens wide his lips comes to ruin", "The tongue is a fire", "No one can tame the tongue" and one of my favorites, "Even a fool is counted wise when he doesn't open his mouth."

I still remember hurtful words that were said to me when I was young. Things that have stuck with me for years, words I've had to fight not to believe because they affect how I view myself. I also remember hurtful words I've said to others. In some cases I was able to apologize in other cases those people are gone from my life and I can't say that I'm sorry. I all cases the words were still spoken, still heard and can never be taken back.

We use words so carelessly; calling other drivers on the road names, talking bad about people we know and people we don't, talking over people instead of listening to them! Hitting people where we know it will hurt the most and then saying "I was joking". We use words like they are paper plates and styrofoam cups, using them and throwing them away. We should be using our words like fine china, something to handle with care and use sparingly.

Not only can our words powerfully damage people they can also powerfully uplift people. I regret things I’ve said, but I also regret things I didn’t say. People I didn’t thank or encourage. Our word can be sweet and life giving. “The tongue of the righteous is choice silver.” Also there is one main thing I think we were given words for. Worship. Instead of throwing my words around or using them inappropriately I hope that I can say, “my tongue shall tell of Your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.”

Our words are a curse or a gift. What are you going to do with yours?


“With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.”
James 3:9-12

Verses in this blog:
Proverbs 18:21
Proverbs 13:13
James 3:6
James 3:8
Proverbs 17:28
Proverbs 26:18-19
Proverbs 10:19
Proverbs 10:20
Psalms 35:28

Shouldn't this be easier?

I’ve been having trouble with people recently. I often feel like people don’t want to be friends with me, they want to be friends with who they think I am. Then when I can’t live up to this alternate and fictional persona the people in my life get hurt. It is enough to make me want to run away and live somewhere alone. Namely in a little cabin in the foothills of Colorado, a place with no address, or at least not one I would give out.

I understand that relationships are unavoidably founded on what you get out of the relationship. Luckily our relationship with God isn’t like that. He doesn’t love us for what He can get from us. But relationships with people are like that. Does this person make me feel happy? Secure? Important? Do we get along? Do they meet some need in me? Maybe it shouldn’t be this way, but it is. Period.

The problem comes—or one problem comes— when you are depending on someone for too much or you think they give you something they can’t continue to give. That is what happens with me. I think people put a lot of emphases on what I give in a relationship, not that they aren’t willing to give as well, but I get built up as this person that provides for them emotionally. Frankly, I can never keep that up very long, and I never mean to be that person in the first place! This all ends badly. For me. For them. It makes me want to stop being a friend if it means I will inevitably let people down.

I picture my energy in computer game terms. I have an energy bar and the more people I have to give to the faster that bar gets depleted. This leaves me feeling like a failure and the people around me feeling dejected.

Part of me feels like I must be a real jerk, to keep letting people down. Am I not compassionate enough? Do I not get enough of my time? What's wrong with me?

Another part of me thinks I just need tougher friends. The people closest to me and that have been my friends the longest are the ones that initiate as much as I do. They give for awhile, I give for awhile. We are honest with each other, but not it an, “Why aren’t you giving me what I need!” kind of way.

I guess I’m looking for people that get that I can’t be everything all the time. People that don’t immediately assume I’m mad at them because my life has changed since they first met me. I have a hard enough time being someone I’m happy with and being myself. I can’t be the persona you have misguidedly judged me as too! It is too much for me. Way too much.

Anyway, I know I’m ranting, but right now my energy bar is way below empty. My conclusion?
I think I’m going to have to stick with fewer friends, people who get me. If I’ve let you down, I am truly sorry, I never meant to hurt anyone. But consider this, maybe I’m not the answer, maybe you need someone or something else.

In any case I want to echo what the Psalmist says in Psalm 55, “Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you.” And again what Peter says in 1 peter 5:7 “Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.”

I;m sorry but no matter how hard I try not to, at some point I will let you down. But God never, never will. He is the one that is going to have to refill my energy bar and He is the one that you (and I) need to be leaning on.

Side note:
If you are reading this and think, “Is she talking about me?” The answer is a resounding, “No”. I have no one person that I’m writing this about.