~ when all words fail she speaks ~

Sunday evening our LifeGroup morphed into a chick night. When I arrived at Ines and Rob’s home, I was the only guest. By 6:30ish, three other ladies had arrived and Rob subtly retreated to the office. Five chicas armed with coffee, salsa, the Word of God and random conversation. It was nice. I left some time after midnight. (This is not to say that everyone’s presence isn’t desired & requested at the next LifeGroup gathering!) Through the process of the evening I began jotting down whenever something in the conversation triggered a song in my mind. I left there inspired to put together a mix-tape version of our tangential communion. Generally, I design a mix based on a theme and concern myself with how each song flows into the next. In this case, I just laid out the songs in the order in which they came up in conversation (subsequently adding the Sara Groves song to set the tone for the collection). I was quite surprised when I slipped it in my CD player this morning on the drive to work, and found, as diverse as they were, the songs actually melded together quite well:

1. Sara Groves ~ every minute
2. Rhonda Vincent ~ you don’t love god if you don’t love your neighbor
3. Depeche Mode ~ enjoy the silence
4. Madison Greene ~ understatement
5. Waterdeep ~ psalm 131
6. Ani Difranco ~ blood in the boardroom
7. Margaret Becker ~ who am i
8. Don Chaffer ~ the worst is my being alone
9. Kate Miner ~ dream before you