REAL

November 18, 2010

If there is one thing everyone in my family has in common, it would be the love of music. Lately, I haven’t had time to keep up with what is happening on the music scene and OH MY at the number of artist these days! I can’t keep up!

My son was playing some of his favorite tunes for me yesterday which included a song called “REAL”. Country singer James Wesley performs this song. As I listened to the lyrics, it became my inspiration for today’s blessings. It might even make it as the inspiration for a few days to come! The song says so much and it goes like this;

500 Channels and there ain’t much on tonight
But reality shows about some folks so called lives
A pretty girl cries cause she don’t get a rose
But she’ll find love next year on her own show
And they call that real

Real, is the hand you hold 57 years
Real, is a band of gold trembling with fear
And it’s the first long tear down an old man’s face
Watching his angel slipping away
His heart so broke, it’s never gonna heal
I call that real

Where I live, housewives don’t act like that
And the survivors are farmers in John Deere hats
Our Amazing race is beating the check
Praying that the bank ain’t ran it through yet
Real, like too much rain falling from the sky
Real, like the drought that came around here last July
It’s the damn old weevils and the market and the weeds
The prayer they prayed when they plant the seeds
And the chance they take to bring us our next meal
I call that real

Real, like a job you lose ‘cause it moves to Mexico
Like a momma and a baby with no safe place to go
Like a little dream house with a big old foreclosed sign
Like a flag draped coffin and a 21 gun goodbye
I call that real

Man I call that real
Oh I call that real

Oh my! The first verse really hits on a topic that is a hot point for me; media of all formats. Media can feed us such lies and so many people fall into a lull type of thinking where they believe what they see is reality or should be. I have seen media cause such dissatisfaction in people’s lives because they decide what they view is reality and their life must really be lacking.
A former pastor of mine once made a comment that one of the largest problem starters he saw in marriages was the Hallmark channel! How sad is it that? I really wont get on my soap box about this topic and will save that for another blog.
I can say, I am blessed! I am blessed to have been introduced to the lies of media before the age of twenty. I am so blessed not to have bought into what media creates in the minds of masses of people. I am so blessed that T.V. and movies have never been something that was very attractive to me. In some ways, I suppose I never cared much for anything that wasn’t relative to my life some how. I am blessed that I understand “real” and I certainly need to work harder at appreciating that which I hold that is very very REAL!