Some days it's hard to remember that the choices we made have helped us become who we are. This coming weekend is the ten year reunion for my class at the boarding school I attended in high school. I left after my junior year, and while sometimes I wish I'd stayed, I would miss some of the friends I made as a result of transferring. Interestingly, none of the those friends are from the school I transferred to, but rather from other circumstances of living at home that year, such as former coworkers I still keep in contact with and see on a rare occurrence, but talk to often.
Back in those days, I was really into Jars of Clay. I still like them, but not to at the same level as I did then. However, their latest album, "The Shelter" came out today. I don't know how I feel about it yet. It's a different sound, and that's fine, as bands need to progress, but it's just not hitting me the way their previous albums have. It feels tired on the first listen, and that's a bummer. I suppose that since all but one song feature another artist, and it's actual title is "Jars of Clay Presents The Shelter", I can only think of it as more a compilation album, and that their next "real" album will bring back all that I've come to know and love about their music.
"Shelter", of the album "The Shelter", contains the lyric "In the shelter of each other, we will live", which are old Irish words that inspired this album. The album jacket states, "These songs are meant to celebrate and inspire small communities of people to care for one another and embody the love, peace and hope promised by God in the life of Jesus." Thus, it is the song of the day.
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