Music is my Therapy

Song: Candy Man/Pocketful of Miracles Artist: From,  Keep Christmas with You -  Mormon Tabernacle Choir feat. Santino Fontana & the Sesame Street Muppets I've been listening to my CD of this incredible performance of a classic, feel-good mash-up! I love it! It takes me back to when I was there live! Most magical night ever! I am so grateful I got to go. Santino Fontana has such a beautiful voice, I wish he was coming back this year for the concert! I hope this song fills your heart with as much joy and happiness as it does mine! Candy man, candy man Candy man, candy man Ooooooo Ooooooo Who can take a sunrise (Who can take a sunrise) Sprinkle it in dew (Sprinkle it in dew) Cover it in chocolate with a miracle or two? The candyman (The candyman) Oh, that candyman can (The candyman can) The candyman can cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good (makes the world taste good) Who can take a rainbow Wrap it in a sigh S

Song: Bedtime Song Artist: Mindy Gledhill,  Pocketful of Poetry The last song from Pocketful of Poetry . So dreamlike and whimsical, it takes you on a magical journey through fairyland :) I love this album and I hope you have enjoyed listening to the songs. I hope it makes you feel like a child again. To feel light, free and happy! This album is so unique and uplifting. It would make a great Christmas gift! I could write your bedtime song Sing it to you all night long When shadows grow like vines And voices soft as chimes Won't let you close your eyes I could write your bedtime song Mother Earth and Brother Moon Spin in rhythm to this tune And curtains made of clouds Bend down to kiss your brow While daylight takes a bow So you can rest your head I could tell you every story Aesop's Fables, Brothers Grimm But my favorite story is The story that we're living in Starlight through the windowpane Sends a blessing on your name As placid as a pond More

Song: Finding Home Artist: Mindy Gledhill,  Pocketful of Poetry I LOVE this one! It's probably my second favorite song on the album (after Shadow Children ). The message of the song makes me feel so nostalgic. It makes me want to be a child again. It makes me wish I could go back to carefree days of playing with friends, coloring, being outside for hours running barefoot through the fields, drawing with chalk on the pavement, slumber parties, hardly a care in the world! Listening to this song makes me want to simplify my life. To slow down and take in the wonder and beauty of life and live as a child: in the moment, happy and like there isn't anything I can't do. Remember when the grass was tall And we built castles out of golden straw Our feet were bare, our tangled hair Blew in the humid ocean air The old blue house reflected on The mirrored sky within the silver pond And horses grazed inside a maze Of thistle thorns and barley blades And I'm fo

Song: Honey Artist: Mindy Gledhill,  Pocketful of Poetry This song is very different from the other songs off the album. I never given it much thought in the past but listening to it now and reading through the lyrics, I have a completely new perspective on the song itself and it has taken on a whole new meaning to me. It definitely makes me think of someone with depression who is feeling down. The singer or the lyrics is that person who is there trying to lift them up and help them however they can. When you're blue, buried deep 60,000 leagues under the bottom of the sea I will swim to you to set you free I will swim to you to set you free Honey, when you feel worn out When the mirror lies and turns on you When the choruses of doubt are singing way too loud Honey, I will chase them down Honey, that's what love's about Well, your world once revolved A thousand miles per hour, now you watch it as it falls And fizzles at a slow dissolve Fizzles at a slo

Song: Shadow Children Artist: Mindy Gledhill,  Pocketful of Poetry I've been excited to post this one! This song is so beautiful yet almost feels sad at the same time. There is a "Peter Pan" theme going on which of course I love! There are references to lost boys, mermaids, pixie, flying through a window, growing up, etc. This has always been one of my favorites off the album, I hope you like it to! And that it reminds you to stay young and NEVER grow up! Far away in the light of day when we as children played. Prone to run in the setting sun and slowly fade away. Where, where did we go, oh when we lost our shadows? I'll fly through your window if you tell me a story of long lost boys and their wooden toys and mermaids by the sea, Pixie dust and a gust of wind to sail us through our dreams. Where, where did we go, oh when we lost our shadows? I'll fly through your window if you tell me a story of why we must all grow up to the ap

Song: Picture Show Artist: Mindy Gledhill,  Pocketful of Poetry Another love song. This whole album just makes me feel so happy! And makes me want this kind of fun, sweet, fairy-tale, magical, simple, real kind of love more than ever! It makes me want to be hopeful about actually finding love again. Because, I've kind of come to the conclusion that I'll be "forever alone" and it makes me so sad :( So, I'm grateful these cute songs help put that spark of hope back into my heart again. Because I don't want to be alone. I want love and companionship. I want a best friend to fall in love with and go on adventures with and live happily ever after with. Way up high in my tree We would climb to get a peak at the drive-in movie screen Watching people from afar Cozied up inside their cars Underneath a web of summer stars Fireflies flicker by In a scene where Gregory Peck catches Audrey Hepburn's eye You look at me the moment that I'm staring D

Song: Oh No! Artist: Mindy Gledhill.  Pocketful of Poetry Very cute, bubbly song about love. A little cheesy perhaps but I really enjoy the chorus, it's very catchy. Also, I had already posted songs 3 & 4 from the album last year during my Grateful For Music Challenge so check out #3 Take Flight here & #4 Little Red Bike here . These two songs are so sweet and have such a nostalgic feeling and sound to them....almost makes me emotional. Oh no! I fell in love with you And you fell in love with me, what shall we do? Oh no! What's happened to my heart? It pitters and it pats two beats apart! Oh no! I am a victim of A cupid and his arrow up above Oh no! I haven't got a chance Against the superpowers of romance Here we go, here we go Like a roller coaster high and low And there's no returning from this twisting turning  We are caught up in the undertow And we're never, ever gonna slow down Oh no! There's danger up ahead So say yo

Song: Brave Artist: Josh Groban I listened to this song on my morning walk today and was reminded how amazing it is! I think I need to listen to this song every day to help me remember to be "brave." Especially since the smallest of things seem to be stressing me out lately. I have to remember to live in the moment and be grateful for my life, come what may! You only have one life to live and you should live it fearlessly and embrace each day, challenges and all! Wake up, wake up, the sun cannot wait for long Reach out, reach out before it fades away You will find the warmth when you surrender Smile into the fear and let it play You wanna run away, run away And you say that it can't be so You wanna look away, look away But you stay 'cause it's all so close When you stand up and hold out your hand In the face what I don't understand My reason to be brave Hold on, hold on so strong, time just carries on All that you thought was wrong is

Song: Trouble No More Artist: Mindy Gledhill,  Pocketful of Poetry Cute, fun, care-free song. I really like this song because it's so positive. It's like, I'm not going to sweat the small things in life. If I burn the pancakes, oh well! My mistake, it happens. This song helps me want to stay positive because in all honesty, I'm not a very optimistic, positive thinking person! I definitely have a "glass-half-empty" mentality. I am grateful for songs that make me feel better and see the good in life.....or at least try to! :) Well you won't believe what I'm gonna be when it's time for me to run I'm gonna leave this nest and give my best to the place where I grew up And there won't be trouble in the world no more There won't be trouble in the world no more! There won't be trouble in the world no more! There won't be trouble in the world no more! I've got a wishing bone and a worry stone and a lucky rabbit's

Song: Weeping Artist: Josh Groban I shouldn't have committed to highlighting Mindy Gledhill this week  .... too many songs came rushing into my mind today that I want to share! Also going back to my posts from two years ago and a year ago on this day , the songs were ALL Josh Groban .... so I've decided to continue the tradition :) This is a forgotten song that I used to LOVE back in 2011!! I remember it was my Senior year of High School and I had a ton of catching up to do and big tests I had to take. I was never good at the whole "school thing." I wasn't a straight A student and I had terrible "testing anxiety and stress." I remember after I would complete each assignment or test I would take a little break and go listen to this song. I especially loved the part that goes: "It doesn't matter now, it's over anyhow..." Ha-ha! I will always associate this song with that time in my life. I am grateful I had this song to help me ge

Song: Pocketful of Poetry Artist: Mindy Gledhill,  Pocketful of Poetry I'm going to be spotlighting Mindy Gledhill and her album Pocketful of Poetry this week! Honestly, this is to help me focus on non-Christmas music because I've been so hooked on it lately! I am a big fan of Mindy Gledhill. Her music is so whimsical, cute and happy. It makes me happy! It makes me want to run around barefoot and be a kid again :) This song is so light-hearted and fun, I feel like throwing my hands in the air and running away to Wonderland....I love the music video because it is so Alice in Wonderland inspired. And I love that world of nonsense and make believe. I am grateful that music can make me feel young and carefree amidst the challenges of real life. I need the escape every now and then, and this is the perfect place to go. I don't do well if I'm kept behind  An office desk inside  It makes me lose my mind Which wonders endlessly Where all the birds fly freely W

Song(s): How Great Thou Art & Hannah's Song Artist(s): Traditional Hymn covered by Peter Hollens feat. The All-American Boys Chorus & Lex de Azevedo from, Samuel, the boy Prophet Argh! I forgot to post yesterday!! I was busy and the day got away from me (and in all honesty, I completley and totally spaced my blog challenge). Oh well. I'm going to go ahead and make up for it today. So you get two songs in one! First song, How Great Thou Art*. Such a beautiful, inspiring and humbling hymn. Peter Hollens has a gorgeous cover on his NEW A Hollens Family Christmas Deluxe album . Since I don't consider this to be only a Christmas song I'm going to go ahead and use it today even though it is currently on two new Christmas albums (Peter's & A Pentatonix Christmas Deluxe ). This song reminds me to show my gratitude to God for everything I have and see. For it all comes from Him:  "O Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder c onsider all the worlds Thy

Song: Something Just Like This Artist: Chainsmokers feat. Coldplay I love this song! It makes me think of someone feeling like they don't measure up in a relationship and are comparing themselves to other people in other relationships and feeling they aren't good enough. And then the partner in the relationship tells them they are perfect just the way they are and they don't need to be like anyone else. I love that! I hope to find that someday. I hope to find someone who will make me feel that way and that I can make him feel that way. I've been reading books of old The legends and the myths Achilles and his gold Hercules and his gifts Spiderman's control And Batman with his fists And clearly I don't see myself upon that list But she said, "Where d'you wanna go? How much you wanna risk? I'm not looking for somebody With some superhuman gifts. Some superhero, Some fairytale bliss. Just something I can turn to. Somebody I can

Song: Supermarket Flowers Artist: Ed Sheeran Such a sad, heartbreaking, emotional song but it's soooo beautiful! I heard it for the first time last week on Dancing with the Stars , ha ha. I immediately looked it up and listened to the whole thing and I have been hooked. I watched a video where Ed Sheeran said he wrote the song about his gran when she passed :( It honestly makes me cry sometimes when I listen to it, especially when I think about my own grandmother who passed away years ago. I imagine this is the way my mom feels when thinking about her mother. I am grateful for my grandma, although she left us far too soon. I am grateful for the life that she lead and that she brought my mother into this world. I grateful for the knowledge that I have to know families truly can be together forever and someday we will be reunited again. "When God took you back, he said Hallelujah you're home." I took the supermarket flowers from the windowsill I threw the

It's that time of year again.....the Grateful for Music Challenge is BACK!! I have to admit, I was listening to Christmas music today.....but just because I've gotten an early start with listening to Christmas songs doesn't mean I'm going to start posting any (even though there are so many new, good Christmas tunes I'm so excited to share! I might have to start my Christmas advent earlier this year - like the day after Thanksgiving!). But let's get this challenge started! Song: Perfect Artist: Ed Sheeran This song has been my jam lately! I'm obsessed. I really should save this for my Month of Love Songs Challenge, but I've been listening to it so much lately, I've decided to just go ahead and post it now. This song is so sweet and romantic, I hope it happens to me someday. Though I have to admit, thinking of myself ever having a romantic connection is depressing and hard for me to imagine ever happening. It's been something I've been t