It Is Well With Your Soul
Texts, tweets, posts, emails, vmails, ecards . . . with short messaging being in vogue and social media having become a very popular way to have a conversation, practically no one takes the time to write a letter, send a handwritten note or mail a card any more. I so value the letters and notes I have received from my big sister, Pearl, through the years beginning when she went away to college. I also love receiving the notes and cards that I regularly find in the mailbox from my...
Read MoreBaby Talk and Lullabies
Speaking Biblical Prophesies and Affirmations to Your Unborn Baby – This article was inspired by my family’s loving anticipation of the arrival of a little baby who I so affectionately call “Baby Girl”. When recently speaking with my nephew, Baby Girl’s father, I mentioned that I wanted to send he and my niece some affirmations to speak to our little loved one as we await her birth. Upon meditating on what I would send to them, I was inspired to write it as a blog so that it...
Read MoreChristian Music as Therapy, A Genre Perspective
“Speak out to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, offering praise with voices [and instruments] and making melody with all your heart to the Lord . . . (Ephesians 5:19-20 AMP)” Psalms. Hymns. Spiritual Songs. These music forms are the cornerstone of what we identify as the Christian music genre. Today the Christian music genre is quite expansive and is mostly identified by lyrical content rather than musical style. As such, various sub-genres of music could be...
Read MoreChristian Music as Therapy, A Clinical Perspective
“Let us come before Him with thanksgiving and extol Him with music and song (Psalm 95:2 WEV)”. The recommended therapeutic relationship, for a Christian, is one where the Music Therapist is committed and submitted to Christ who is the ultimate example of an effective ‘therapon’. He is the ‘Wonderful Counselor’ and the source of our health and healing. It is by Jesus stripes that we are healed and it is to Him that we can release our burdens and our sorrows (cf. Isaiah 53:4-5). ...
Read MoreChristian Music as Therapy, A Counselor’s Perspective
“Let the word [spoken by] Christ (the Messiah) have its home [in your hearts and minds] and dwell in you in [all its] richness, as you teach and admonish and train one another in all insight and intelligence and wisdom [in spiritual things, and as you sing] psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, making melody to God with [His] grace in your hearts (Colossians 3:16 AMP).” Music is a gift from God that that has the power to be a balm to a person’s soul, speak healing to a person’s...
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