Background music.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 0 comments link this post::This post is the "back story" and idea formation for a post on my main blog. I sometimes put these here to keep the main idea from being cluttered, but for letting people understand where an idea came from.::
I was working on the short photo-montage video and didn't know what music to put in the background. I had the photos selected, but I didn't know what song. In past years, the music that had been used was popular contemporary Christian, like "I Can Only Imagine."
That wasn't what I wanted to say. The music is the message. What we hear is what we see; music is powerful.
I started to look through my MP3 files.
What is the message? What is my prayer?
I wanted the video to be a prayer of sorts, and not just a photo-album to music that people could watch and smile and say "how nice."
My prayer is always -- always -- that I might see.
Be Thou My Vision.
Riches I heed not
Nor man's empty praise
Thou mine inheritance
Now and always.
I found Ginny Owens' version, which is a favorite of mine because of her almost unearthly voice and the fact that she sings the song with a particular sincerity; Ginny Owens is blind.
But there was something else I needed. What good is sight if it leads to nothing? What are the questions from this year's trip? What about all the why, and the why not, and the anger at how unjust life seems to be for the have-nots?
I don't want to be superficial about the why and why not, I had jotted in my journal, writing about the always present question that we raised in discussion about why we had so much and our Nicaraguan friends seemed to suffer. And I don't want to dismiss the beauty of their lives by focusing on the material lack.
And then Sinead O'Connor's song "Something Beautiful" came to mind.
Vision without action is still blindness. And I wanted my action to be something beautiful for the Lord.
Though I'm not sure about the reaction I'll get from using "Something Beautiful" (some of the sound and lyrics may not be what people are expecting), every time I hear it, it says what I want to say.
Links: Read lyrics here. See video of it below.
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