Favorite Music

Because I've only gotten more indecisive over the years, I tend to stick to my younger self's favorites when these types of questions come up. In this case, my favorite band is Tenth Avenue North. They are a contemporary Christian band that, just like any good music does, really inspired and helped me through critical times in my past. Growing up in a church, I found it incredibly easy to be intimidated by the idea of God, especially through the music that tends to be played. A lot of church/gospel music reminds the audience about the Bigness of God's "entity" and how we compare as flawed, minuscule, almost irrelevant, beings. As I went through the time in my life in where it is required for one to doubt, question, and refuse everything we once learned, Tenth Avenue North provided music that diminished the idea of me be being tiny. In fact, I think this band does a great favor to contemporary Christian music in producing songs that remind the listening audience about their intangible worth, especially in the eyes of God.

One of my favorite lines from their earlier hits is:

"You are more than the choices that you've made. You are more than the sum of your past mistakes. You are more than the problems you create, You've been remade. 'Cause this is not about what you've done, but what's been done for you. This is not about where you've been, but where your brokenness brings you to. This is not about what you feel, But what He felt to forgive you, And what He felt to make you loved." -You Are More (2010)

Regardless of whether I was facing good times or bad times, TAN's style of writing and music production was a refreshing and constant sense of reassurance that above all, I am enough to love and be loved, and at the end of the day, that's all that really matters to me.

See you on Saturday,
-E