Sometimes What We Should Do Is Just Simple by Rev. Benjamin Glaser
My kids make fun of me a good bit for my musical tastes, partly because that’s their job to poke at the old man for being out of touch and all that, but when it comes to one particular song the mocking turns to foot tapping and smiles. They get all surprised I like a song they like. It makes them question their own approval of it. While I am generally of the opinion that Nashville committed murder on music row in the late 90’s, if not earlier, there is one song, that I am sure y’all know, and it’s a tune which James William McManus will mock me mercifully about once I mention it here in a second. Yet there is a lyric in it that speaks to me, which all good music should do at some level. There is something special, likely designed by the Lord about the nature of composition which provokes certain emotions and ideas through the witness of men and women getting together strumming guitars and pounding on drums and manipulating fiddle strings that does something to the human spirit. W...