Lessons from a child

So every night Maddie and I go over new bible verses for her to memorize. She is three and a half and has four or five verses memorized so far. That is pretty impressive to me! Well a couple of nights ago I was trying to teach her Matthew 6:33 "Seek first His Kingdom and His Righteousness and all these things will be added unto you as well". It suddenly occured to me that this was a song and maybe it would be easier to learn and retain for a preschooler. Well she loved it and now wants me to sing all of the songs I know to her. Ha! That is a long list!
This led me to a whole train of thought of all the songs I knew. I started thinking about all the disco music that I used to love...ABBA, Gloria Gainer, the Violent Femms, Prince, The Gap Band, KC and the Sunshine Band...etc. The list could go on forever. Were these songs that I wanted her to know? Wow that really made me feel like a corrupted soul.
I have a friend who once told me that your children bring out all of your sin that you didn't even know you had. How true it is. I never looked at that music as wrong or polluted in anyway really. But to think of my daughter singing something like Brickhouse for instance made me realize how dirty the words are. Singing about some woman letting it all hang out is not really seeking first God, His Kingdom or His righteousness.
Something to ponder...
II Corinthians 6:14 "Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?"

Sleep

So this past week has been a lot of learning new music which always causes me insomnia. So frustrating. I wonder if this happens to everyone? Truely, I will go a week without sleep when I am working on a new song. Right now I have three songs in my head from Hello Dolly. More concerning is the fact that the songs also include dance routines. For that matter, I am even more worried and go over the steps in my head...this could go on forever.
I will say that being in a musical is somewhat more satisfying because there is more than one performance. When I am learning music for church or a wedding-you sing it once or twice and it is over...all that worry for what. There are, I think 8 or 9 performances of Hello Dolly. I am getting pretty excited about it. So glad that I got this off my bucket list alas!