[experiment]

Soo.. a while ago I mentioned I was doing an experiment. You may or may not remember :) Anyway.. I did it.
The reason I started it is because Samantha and I had been working on a project all day, listening to music. I noticed later on that day that all the lyrics and melodies from the songs we'd been listening to for *hours* were floating around in my head. Some of them were ok, some of them were good, and some of them.. weren't so good. I got to thinking, "If I listened to good, solid Christian music only, maybe it would have the same effect. If I pound my brain with these wonderful lyrics, maybe they'll be what I'm thinking about instead of true love-turned breakup." Now I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with secular music. I just wanted to focus on some truly good music for a while. So I made a resolution to listen to only select Christian music for two weeks. That.. kinda didn't work. We went to TN the first week and of course the driver (my dad) had to listen to music all 24 hours of driving :) And it wasn't Christian music. So I just decided to extend my experiment. Which was fine, I'm not complaining at all :) It took about two weeks of truly listening to nothing but my selected music, but it worked!! I found myself singing hymns in the shower *cough* I mean around the house instead of secular music, and thinking more about the lyrics to the songs. Another motivation I had was I wanted to learn to enjoy them more. Because secular music is usually more attractive as far as the tunes/singers go to me. And that happened too!

But I have to admit... It feels good to be listening to some different music again :) I had gotten some new music right before I did the experiment, and of course I'm listening to the Phantom of the Opera :D

Soo.. there you has it. I would encourage you to do something like this!! It was a really good thing, I think.