Hello family, I come from a family where music is there in every thing...my dad could identify any ragas and many of my aunts and cousins are still singers in many All India radio stations.All our family gatherings were times of extensive music (carnatic ) sessions and classical dance.My siter also sings well. Me and my mom were only people who could not sing ,but i liked music and learnt to play guitar and dance.
when i went to medical school , i found Jesus and HE influenced the way i do every thing. Finally i decided to say no to secular music with some of my friends,simply because we thought its drifting us from the Lord. When we go for a movie or listen to such musics we found ourselves immersed so much in THEIR world and found hard to pray. See we were very weak!!!.So when lent came ,we decided that we'll fast Chithrageetham (film song show in TV) and secular music that lent. And some body introduced to us some other music liek that of Maranatha Music ,Celebrant singers and "We belong to thee ' by REx band. For the first time i knew music will make me cry and take me closer to Jesus !!!!!After that lent we found ourselves least interested in those secular things any more...!!Praise the Lord. But still my room mates and nearby neighbours were with those songs and many times ,even when i don't play music i was forced to hear them and to think about the scenes which i never wanted to . Many of those songs were romantic hits...like Ashiqui and Many Amir khan songs. So i found a way out...some songs i changed words...for eg ..for the song Chura ke Dil mera...Goriya chali....manzil meri bus thoo hi thoo ..Theri gali mein chali.. when i changed the words with Jesus..it was one of the best songs i could sing of jesus to others... I made it like this Chura ke dil mera..Easho(Jesus) Chalae(Jesu stole my heart).....Manzil meri Bus thoo hi thoo thaeri gali mein chali (my goal is you and i'm walikng in your way)! Many of my friends liked this idea .If we were to sing many romantic songs to Jesus ,my God ,it made such a difference .And still Jesus remained my love. And my favourite love song to him was...Nazar ke samne , Jighar ke pas koyi rehatha hein woh hi tum....(You are the one who lives close to my heart and always before my eyes). But few years later , i came to see one presentation(Rock'n'Ruin) by Freddie from Bombay at Emmaus regarding the hidden traps in Rock music .My God that's the first time i heard about back masking whence some song which seem to be innocent when played back wards had all sorts of blasphemy and bad things said about God. And he also told us how music affects our thinking and how certain music could lead people to suicide even...This doen't mean that all rock singers use such tecniques...only thing is that many people failed to identify which is bad..I don't want to open a can of worms when i say this. At that time i was so happy in my old decision of not hearing secular music any more. And by that time i was introduced to lot of singers who used to sing only for the Lord. And i had enough songs to hear and sing . It is proved that what we hear and see has great impact on us .... some of the unborn babies were made to hear certain music and once born they were passified by hearing those songs again .I can testify that in my life itself...Just to check it ,when i was pregnant ,i used to sing to my unborn baby one song always "Ammayekkal ninne snehichidum oru thathanundu kunje swarlokathil.... which means .."there is a father in heaven for you ,who loves you more than your mom, who created you and entrusted you with me...''. even now when she cries , if i sing that song she will be passified!!!!.She is also a fan of Rex Band songs and action songs. So even though my husband and myself are not good singers or dancers..we have great joy singing and dancing with our baby for the Lord and with the Lord.She enjoys that session before we all go to bed most of the days. One day after our prayer group, during chit chat one of my friends told about a friend of his who used to sing one song when he gets drunk in the hostel ..(the song meant ...see this leg that stamped to death my 6 kids )....and everybody laughed...the next day when i woke up i found that same parady ringing in my ears over and over,even with out me realising it..!!! I also remeber a Jy who used to get up first in his hostel to play a christian song ,so that every body who gets up hearing that ,used to echo some lines from those songs when they were taking bath etc.... So what i wanted to say is that ,what ever we do or hear has a great impact on us as well as others... so we should be choosing things with great care. We have tuned our music system in such a way as to get automatically started by 5.45 am and it plays some gospel songs and then rosary....so it really helps us to get our minds tuned for personel prayer as we get up from bed and brush our teeth and get ready before we sit to pray. And i put rosary or spiritually uplifting talks when i cook or do cleaning in the house.I just can;t praise enough our lord for all these tecnologoes that help to be with him always. These are just my reflections...as i sing along "Thiru nama keerthanam paduvanallengil navenikkenthinu natha...(if it is not to sing your praises why should i have my tongue,Lord?) Apadana meppozhum alapichillengil adharangal enthinu natha...(why should i have these lips ,if they were not to sing your praises always ,Lord?).. Ee jeevithamenthinu natha ( if not ,Lord,what is this life for.?..) Sorry for the long mail. In joyful communion, Sindhu, Chicago, USA =============================================================================== This mail is generated from JOYnet, a Jesus Youth mailing list. For more info on the list visit http://www.jesusyouth.org/joynet To unsubscribe from the list send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the list visit http://www.jesusyouth.org/joynet/join In case of any issue related to the mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===============================================================================
