Now that I am a Canuck, I have to give a shout out to some good old Canadian music.  My Teachers Quorum advisor was Randy Bachman back in his heyday (late 1970’s and early 1980’s).  He was always the designated driver on local gigs/tours and, when we took his rig out for Scouting excursions, we found a few Jim Beam and Jack Daniels bottles rattling around the floorboards in the back.  I have adopted a little of his gentle nature into me – I was always impressed with that part of him.  His son, my contemporary, Tal (this song was about his wife who has left him with their 8 children, deciding to stick with the gospel, in spite of Tal) has left the church and is on par with Ed Decker from back in the day.  He is so bitter because he allowed his short-lived music career to canker himself instead of growing from the struggle.  When faced with bitter disappointment we MUST force ourselves to focus on what the lesson is for us in this life – instead of the bitterness of the pain of the journey.  God will use those Abrahamic tests to strip away the fluff and expose us in our extremity – so we can know who we are; truly who we are in our Fallen state…..

One of my favorite songs that my wife and I adopted in the years leading up to the death of our son, was Sarah Mclaughlin’s “In the Arms of the Angel” that we discovered in the movie, City of Angels – a very complex romantic foray into death and love and tragedy of one who made an overt decision to alter their future – from a fallen state.  When we lost our little guy, we found a lot of solace in the music and the themes from the movie.  Here is a cover of that song that I came across from an LDS song-writer/composer.  Excellent talent – probably better than the original song by Sarah:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ElORM9O-0U

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Now that I am a Canuck, I have to give a shout out to some good old Canadian music.  My Teachers Quorum advisor was Randy Bachman back in his heyday (late 1970’s and early 1980’s).  He was always the designated driver on local gigs/tours and, when we took his rig out for Scouting excursions, we found a few Jim Beam and Jack Daniels bottles rattling around the floorboards in the back.  I have adopted a little of his gentle nature into me – I was always impressed with that part of him.  His son, my contemporary, Tal (this song was about his wife who has left him with their 8 children, deciding to stick with the gospel, in spite of Tal) has left the church and is on par with Ed Decker from back in the day.  He is so bitter because he allowed his short-lived music career to canker himself instead of growing from the struggle.  When faced with bitter disappointment we MUST force ourselves to focus on what the lesson is for us in this life – instead of the bitterness of the pain of the journey.  God will use those Abrahamic tests to strip away the fluff and expose us in our extremity – so we can know who we are; truly who we are in our Fallen state…..

One of my favorite songs that my wife and I adopted in the years leading up to the death of our son, was Sarah Mclaughlin’s “In the Arms of the Angel” that we discovered in the movie, City of Angels – a very complex romantic foray into death and love and tragedy of one who made an overt decision to alter their future – from a fallen state.  When we lost our little guy, we found a lot of solace in the music and the themes from the movie.  Here is a cover of that song that I came across from an LDS song-writer/composer.  Excellent talent – probably better than the original song by Sarah:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ElORM9O-0U

Regular people doing amazing things.

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