The Problem with the world is me.  Yes, I admit it. I saw the little lady walking across the street and didn't help her though I felt led. Yes, I saw that kid being bullied and instead of walking over to defend him, I turned away and pretended like I didn't notice. Yes, I joined in the conversation of gossip and instead of stepping out of the conversation, I added my two cents.

Am I really being the hands and feet of Christ? Am I reflecting Him as I ought? No. I am trying to serve two masters. Well, my dear friend, it's not going to work. You see, you can't serve two masters. It's you or God. And since I am all about pleasing myself, making sure I have all the cool gadgets and all the top songs from the top artists, it's the almighty God being put on the shelf to dust.

Yes, the problem with the world is me.

Someday I will think of others before me. Someday I will serve God will a willing heart and cast all my earthly cares to the wind. Someday will carry my cross and truly follow Jesus not letting other influence my opinion on my beliefs.

That someday is today.



**video and lyrics is of my favorite band downhere. Check them out at www.downhere.com**


There's got to be some reason for all this misery
A secret evil corporation somewhere overseas
They're pulling strings, arranging things
It's a conspiracy

Or what about the ones who shape the course of history
What if we petitioned for one grand apology?
I'll write to my prime minister
You, write your president

Everybody's wondering how the world could get this way
If God is good, and how it could be filled with so much pain
It's not the age-old mystery we made it out to be
Yeah, there's a problem with the world
And the problem with the world is me

Some will say the devil and his legions
They put us in a headlock of submission
But they lost all power over me
A long, long time ago

And since I was a kid you know I've caused a lot of hurt
And no one ever taught me how to put myself first
It came so very naturally
But I'm not a prodigy

So I will look no further than a mirror
That's where the offender hides
So great is my need for a redeemer
That I cannot trust myself
No, I cannot trust my self
I dare not trust myself
So I trust in someone else

The sooner you can sing along
The sooner you can sing this song
The happier we'll be
The problem with the world is me


Martel/Germain

Welcome to my newest blog! I love blogging. I love hearing what people are doing and what they have to say on things going on around them and in the world.

I have always had the idea of doing a “song blog”. I know other people are probably doing it or something similar to it. But, I decided to start one myself and why not a good time like the start of a new year?

Songs are amazing. They tell such great stories. They can inspire. They can make you laugh, cry, get angry. They speak to you sometimes in a way that you would love to express how you are feeling and can’t form it into words, but yet when you hear the melodic phrasing, you automatically think, “That’s what I was trying to convey!”

I think I read somewhere that songwriters need to read the Bible even more than ministers do. Songs are a mini sermon and people retain them and the message presented in them.

So, thank you for joining me on this journey of exploration through song. I hope we can grow and learn from each other in the process. Songs are a very powerful tool of communication.







This week I think I am going to start with the song “Meteor Shower” from the artist Owl City. I had originally heard about Owl City through a friend who recommended it. I didn’t think much of it until at a downhere concert back in November of 2009. They were playing a slideshow of advertisements and random music videos and information for the church. The song “Fireflies” came on. I remember my friend saying something about the band Owl City and I told her that someone told me about them awhile back. I listened to the song and immediately fell in love with it.

Fast forward about a month and a half later. I was playing on iTunes and decided to check out Owl City. I once again fell in love with the whole album. Now, I’m not much of a electricona kind of person, but I couldn’t stop bouncing my head or tapping my foot.

I remember listening to “Meteor Shower” and closing my eyes. I am not sure who or what this song was made for, but the lyrics touched my heart:

I can finally see,
You're right there beside me.
I am not my own,
For I have been made new.
Please don’t let me go,
I desperately need you.

That’s it. Such a simple lyric, but powerful at the same time. It’s amazing how God can come through in a song. I am learning more and more as I grow in my walk about trusting God and letting him take control of my life. It’s so hard with everything battling against me. But the more I listen to His still small voice, the more I find a peace in my soul.

I can desperately try to make it on my own in this world, but I will fall flat on my face if I do. People think that depending on someone makes them weak. It’s like a man holding a purse. I know most men can’t stand going shopping with their wives, let along carry her purse for her. It shows either a sign of weakness, that he doesn’t have the “upper hand” or he prefers to “swing the other way”.

Or apologizing. That’s another way people think that they will show surrender or defeat. But the better man apologizes-I personally don’t think that it’s a sign of weakness. It’s a sign of strength.

And it still amazes me that even though we apologize and keep resurrendering our lives over to God, how often are those apologies empty. Do we do them in sincerity or do we do them just so we can get on with our day and put the issue aside? I hope that in most of our lives, apologies are sincere. God forgives us on a daily basis for all the mistakes we make. We are constantly being made new and we desperately need Him in our lives.

I have made “Meteor Shower” my prayer as of late. I have been trying to say it as I wake in the morning. It helps keep the reminder of who I am in Christ. I am not my own. I am His and ever will be and what I do in my daily routine needs to glorify Christ.