{"id":3384,"date":"2016-04-10T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barbdahlgren.com\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2016-05-01T20:56:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T01:56:08","slug":"choose-to-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=3384","title":{"rendered":"Choose to Sing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Year of Choices <\/em><\/p>\n

By Barbara Dahlgren<\/em><\/p>\n

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Some of us love to sing.\u00a0 When we\u2019re alone in our Honda Civics we crank that music up loud, sing to the top of our lungs, bob our heads to the rhythm and \u201cshake it off, shake it off\u201d like we\u2019re at a Taylor Swift concert.\u00a0 Then we make eye contact with the person in the BMW next to us and get all embarrassed.\u00a0 Well\u2026 I\u2019d rather sing and get caught than not to sing at all.<\/p>\n

Okay, so you can\u2019t carry a tune and singing\u2019s not your thing, but you can still make a joyful noise. (Psalm 100:1) Psalm 98:4 says, \u201cMake a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth\u2026\u201d\u00a0 It even says, \u201c\u2026make a loud noise and rejoice and sing praise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Music and\/or singing is mentioned over 800 times in the Bible.\u00a0 The Psalms teach us that music was used to offer thanks, to praise and to worship God, but it was used for other purposes as well.\u00a0 It was used to\u2026<\/p>\n