Songs That Just Make You Feel Good

So, last night I started on a new playlist for my IPOD. Actually, the idea came to me yesterday while listening to a John Mayer song and thinking that it sounded really fun and made me feel good. I then asked some friends I work with to give me their suggestions for a new playlist called, “Feel Good Songs”.

I sat at my desk at home last night for over an hour going through my vast collection of music and made a great start on it. And as I was doing it I realized that most of them would fit into a certain tempo that would be easy to dance to. I’m guessing they make us feel good because they have a tempo that our bodies or souls find sympathetic. A good many of them have a temp that is close to “Some Kind Of Wonderful” by Grand Funk if you’re familiar with that. I’m listening to them today while at work to see if they really fit the category or not. So far I like ‘em all. Here’s the list I have thus far, but will add more soon.

Twisting By the Pool – Dire Straights
What I like About You
Oh, Pretty Woman
I Love A Rainy Night
Good Love Is On the Way
Drivin’ My Life Away
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Good News – Les Paul and Friends
I Got A Line On You – Jeff Healey
Some Kind Of Wonderful - GFR
Sweet Home Alabama
What Was I Thinking – Dierks Bently
Love Shack
Penny Lane – Beatles
Here Comes The Sun
She Came IN through The Bathroom Window
Get Back
Back In The USSR
Jim Dandy – Black Oak Arkansas
Feeling Alright – Joe Cocker
The Valley Road – Bruce Hornsby
Maneater – Hall & Oates
Got My Mind Set On You – George Harrison
The Lion Sleeps Tonight – The Tokens
You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet – BTO
Ride Like The Wind – CC
Suddenly I See – KT Tunstall
Sledgehammer – Gabriel
Roll With It – Winwood
Joy to The World – 3 Dog Night
Last Night – Toto
New Blue Moon – TTW
Daydream Believer – Monkeys
The 59th Street Song (Feeling Groovy) - Paul Simon
Wake Up Little Susie – S&G
You Can Call Me Al – S&G
Graceland – Paul Simon
Down ON the Corner – CCR
Handy Man – James Taylor
Your Mama Don’t Dance – Loggins and Messina
Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me – Keith Urban
Why Don’t We Just Dance? – Josh Turner
Firecracker – JT
Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
Take It Easy – Eagles
Lord, I Lift Your Name on High – Petra
Your Rescued Me – Among Thorns
Good Times – Robert Randolph
Can’t Get Next To You – Temptations
My Girl – Temptations
Get Ready – Rare Earth
All About Grace
All She Wants To Do Is Dance – Don Henly
Confessions Of a Lunatic Friend – Bryan Duncan
Gonna Fly Now (Rocky Theme Song)
Simply Irresistible – Robert Palmer
Pinball Wizard – The Who
Glad – Traffic
Gimme Some Lovin’ – Spencer Davis Group
When A Man Loves A Woman – Michael Bolton
Blessed – Brett Dennen
Red Rubber Ball
Spooky

Perspective

I hate cancer. I hate death. I hate sickness. I hate pain. I hate ilness and anything else that hurts people. Now, I know for certain that God never intended this to enter our world. The bible is clear that we turned the world over to the rule of the devil when we chose to sin. Oh, I hate sin too. It's not that I don't sin or don't like to sin from time to time, but I wish it wasn't even there. One of the things I'm looking forward to in heaven is the absence of the devil and all the stuff he suggests we do. I don't like to sin 'cause it hurts my Dad (God) and it causes death in me, and those are 2 good reasons to avoid it.

I have a cousin who is very, very sick with cancer right now. We stopped by her house Saturday evening to see her and I realized again how much I hate cancer and all that other stuff. Cancer has taken a beautiful, intelligent, loving young woman with a husband and 2 children to take care of and confined her to a chair in her living room. She has to take meds to keep fighting and meds to make her feel better from what the other meds are doing to her. It's just disgusting and heartbreaking. After spending a few minutes with her I realized that I had no problem in dealing with my cancer. You ask me how I'm doing and I'll just say, "great". There's just nothing wrong with me when compared with others. I guess that's called "perspective", right?

Perspective is a good thing in my opinion. It allows you to step back and see things from a different view. I’ve always explained the mystery of God that way. It’s like you’re looking at a tall office building from 2 miles away. You can see the whole building and you can tell the color, shape and some of the nuances of the structure and you think, “Yes, I’ve seen that building and I know what it looks like”. But, the closer you get to the building the more detail you can make out and you realize that what you saw before was only a small bit of the beauty of the building. The closer you get, the more you see and the more there is to see. It all has to do with your perspective.

So, I take a look at my life and the small amount of trouble and pain I’ve experienced and I compare it to others and I just can’t complain. I’ve been blessed beyond anything I could have ever dreamed would have happened to me. I almost lost my life when I was younger due to stupidity and sin and now realize that I don’t deserve any of this wonderful life God has given me. .