A couple months ago Apple premiered a new function for iTunes called Genius. What it does is make playlists based on the songs that you have loaded into the applications, lists can be made of 25, 50, 75, or 100 songs. I was skeptical that Genius would be as genius as Apple made it sound. I started by mkaing lists of some songs I was in the mood for and making playlists for characters in some of the stories I'm writing. The playlists that it came up with were all amazing and well matched.
Scrolling through some of my religious (I dislike referring to music as christian or gospel) music and came across the song Fallen Man by Relient K. I had been feeling extremely fallen at the time and close to hopeless and had genius make the playlist. I started listening to it and while most of the songs are religious there are some that come from non-religious (sometimes referred to as secular) music but blended beautifully with the other songs to create a playlist that spoke about being fallen and the redemption that comes from it.
I have felt for a long time that while my religious music can be glorifying so can some of my non-religious music. I have found that when I let Genius make a playlist I am letting God make a playlist for me as well. Another example of how I need to keep letting go of things so God can make the playlist of my life.
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