Casting Crowns

Casting Crowns are one of my favourite bands. They're an American Christian Band. Their songs are written using passages from the Bible and from experiences of themselves and others. Their latest album really shows a mixture of the two. Songs such as Angel and Just Another Birthday speak of things that the band know and have experienced. Angel is about Mark's wife and how she to him is an Angel and is from Heaven made especially for him. Just Another Birthday is the experiences of so many girls that they hear from and see. Girls who's Fathers have left them and are let down and they find themselves lost, having boyfriend after boyfriend and finding themselves pregnant. They're crying out for help and have no idea what to do. Songs such as Spirit Wind, The Well and Wedding Day are all great songs with relation to the Bible. Especially Wedding Day as it sings about when Christ will return. How the Church is his Bride and he will take us through the gates of Heaven and we'll reign with him. I long for that day. It will be the best day ever. But for now I'm here.

I realise sometimes how far I've come in the last year or so. Where I was and where I am now. Sometimes i think about where I could be now. I could be married, had I stuck with the boyfriend I had a while back. (or planning it!) If things had gone badly wrong, or kept going as they were a year back, I could have a baby! I could have lost my way and turned my back on God. Whatever had happened I wouldn't be here. Sat writing this on my bed at university in 2012.
Many things corrected me. Many people influenced me. But it was certainly Christ guiding me and the Holy Spirit changing me who have put me where I am right now. Here writing to you lot. And I praise God that I can do this. And that I am here.

Going back to Casting Crowns, they have certainly helped me along the way. Their words have had such an impact on me and sometimes I come away from listening with tears in my eyes. The words do speak to me and I praise God that they have the talent to sing. Nothing replaces the Bible, but Casting Crowns are amazing and one of their 5 minutes songs can really change my mood.