Welcome to Tuesday!!! It's time for a Note of a Musical variety! No, not G# or Bb, but some thoughts and meditations on music in general and life in specific! It's all wrapped up in a blog that we call Tuesdays Musical Notes!!!
As so many good things in life, we just can't get enough of the things we like. Especially when it comes to our entertainment choices? (Anyone binging Star Wars, or Marvel?) So, today we indulge our guilty pleasure as we introduce the first ever Tuesday's Musical Notes sequel!!! (Technically, I guess they are all sequels of sorts, but let's not get hung up on semantics, shall we?) Honestly, you can check the archives and see if we've ever done it before. They are on the left by date, or you can search by topic, artist, or title of your favorite song. I really can't recall ever having a sequel in Notesland... but you never know, there might be one out there somewhere, somewhere...
The search for lost love continues... We were given an introduction to the characters of today's video last week. That was an actual band that played the younger Moodies, a British band called Mood Six, for the "Your Wildest Dreams" video They and the female protagonist, Janet Spencer-Turner, return in the sequel song which peaked at #30 on Billboard's Hot 100, the last single to chart for The Moody Blues. The real cool thing is that the songs, "Your Wildest Dreams" and "I Know You're Out There Somewhere", aren't on the same album. In fact, they were recorded 2 years apart. Again, one of the only times that I can think of where a band came out with a sequel song on a different album. To give you the full picture, and to give you something long enough to have a couple of bites of popcorn with, let's watch both vids...
The video for "I Know You're Out There Somewhere" uses the radio edit of the song which is just over 4 minutes long. The album track, as happens so many times in the life of a musical act's singles, is longer, in this case by over 2 minutes. While I prefer the original track, the edit isn't egregious, like some radio edits can be, it cuts an instrumental bridge whose theme is well established throughout the song.
For more Moody Blues info, videos, and Musical Notes treatments, check out last weeks blog: Tuesday's Musical Notes - "Your Wildest Dreams" (The Moody Blues)
The mist is lifting slowly I can see the way ahead
And I've left behind the empty streets that once inspired my life
And I've left behind the empty streets that once inspired my life
This could be an accurate way the Hebrew patriarch Joseph was feeling at the stage of his life in which we find him today. His life experiences would have caused him to have an entire range of emotions, sorrow and sadness to elation and joy. He had been a slave, a venerated servant, a prisoner, and now we find Joseph as the second most powerful man in the known world. His birth relatives had long given him up for dead as his brothers had betrayed him into the hand of slave merchants. But out there somewhere was a story that none of them could have imagined.
One would imagine that Joseph was quickly educated in the ways of Egypt. He had been in the country for many years in a variety of societal status'. His current position now afforded him the opportunity to carry out the interpretation that God had given him of Pharaoh's dream. He orchestrated the hording (the good kind...let's face it Indiana Jones didn't find any toilet paper at Tanis...) of food stocks during seven years of plenty in preparation for seven years of famine. But out there somewhere was a family who began to run low on food. Get the full story here:
Jacob and Joseph's stories both reveal historical narratives about redemption. Each of them were eventually restored to families from which they had been separated. The reunions with those families explore the depth of reclamation that can take place among family. They are a perfect example of the power of love and exist to serve as a shadow to the most powerful display of love ever given in history. With their redemption stories complete we close the book on this chapter of the Old Testament and the creation story as well. But THE Book is always open when it comes to showing the love that exists throughout eternity.
That display of love is the story of a Creator/Father who waits patiently. He waits for his created ones/children to desire restoration and reclamation. He provided a sacrificial payment to insure that a loving reunion can occur for those who ask for it.
Today, friend, what seems to be missing in your life can be found. Today, friend, that longing for belonging can be filled. Today, friend, there is a God who looks upon you as His child and He waits singing...
"I know you're out there somewhere
Somewhere, somewhere
I know you're out there somewhere
Somewhere you can hear my voice..."
Somewhere, somewhere
I know you're out there somewhere
Somewhere you can hear my voice..."
Many in the world celebrated the fact that there is a tomb that is empty in Israel this past Sunday. The person who was placed in that tomb after being tortured and killed was seen 3 days later in a physical body and over the next 40 days by many. He is alive through the same restorative power that waits for you and me. He is alive, now, begging God for you. He came once to be that sacrificial payment. He is coming again to find those who are His and take them home. He is also singing...
"I know I'll find you somehow
Somehow, somehowI know I'll find you somehow
And somehow I'll return again to you..."
Today, friend...
'Til Tuesday,
Serving HIM by serving You,
randy
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