The Gift of Music to Heal Our Broken Spirits: Kelly Lang and Chris Brown
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
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🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Music holds an incredible spiritual power that can't be easily defined. It serves as a universal language, connecting people across cultures and experiences, and has a mysterious way of mirroring our innermost feelings and thoughts. The gift God gave us through music can heal, uplift, and inspire, providing spiritual nourishment and a deeper sense of connection to the world around us.
Singer/songwriter Kelly Lang found herself in a dark place after an unexpected and frightening breast cancer diagnosis. As she contemplated her mortality, she started to look at the world with different eyes, and was inspired to write songs about her experiences during a season that would greatly test her strength. Chris Brown, a worship leader and songwriter at Elevation Church, has written amazing songs of worship during his life that help people feel closer to God. Chris describes how music got him through some difficult times, including the loss of his mom, and how God shows up for Him in those challenging places.
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Kelly Lang’s latest album ‘Dragonfly’ features the single “I Think It’s Jesus” as well as “I’m Not Going Anywhere,” “Life Sentence,” and more! Lang’s advocacy for breast cancer awareness came full circle with her Grand Ole Opry debut at Opry Goes Pink, the annual event honoring breast cancer patients.
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Written by Chris Brown, Amy Corbett and Steven Furtick
© 2018 Music by Elevation Worship Publishing (BMI) (admin. at EssentialMusicPublishing.com)
Interview Quotes:
“I survived with an attitude of gratitude and looking at things positively, like, Okay, I've got breast cancer, but at least I'm here. I was just grasping at every little detail because the people that I surrounded myself with taught me that. You could choose to live in a dark place or you could choose to live in a lighter place.” - Kelly Lang
“It's so important to daily set aside time with [God] so that these truths get rooted deeper into my spirit, into my mind, that whatever I'm worried about or facing right now, God is in it with me.” - Chris Brown
“Spending time with Jesus every single day is watering and tending to the garden of my soul.” - Chris Brown
“I need those moments where God can also pull out things in my heart and in my spirit that don't belong there, and He can reveal those things to me.” - Chris Brown
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| 0:00.0 | Jesus listens. The 365-day prayer devotional now comes in a note-taking edition. |
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| 0:17.9 | of their walk with God. Look for the Jesus listens note-taking edition wherever you buy books. |
| 0:23.2 | Since my diagnosis, I do really look at the blue sky as bluer and the green grass as a greener. |
| 0:35.8 | I appreciate my friends more. I burn the good candles and I use good sheets now and I use my good |
| 0:41.8 | China now. You know, today is the day and we are not guaranteed tomorrow. |
| 0:47.6 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Music holds an incredible spiritual power that can't be |
| 0:52.6 | easily defined. It serves as a universal language connecting people across cultures and experiences |
| 0:58.2 | and has a mysterious way of mirroring our innermost feelings and thoughts. The gift God gave us |
| 1:04.0 | through music can heal, uplift, and inspire, providing spiritual nourishment and a deeper sense of |
| 1:09.0 | connection to the world around us. Singer songwriter Kelly Lang found herself in a dark place |
| 1:17.6 | after an unexpected and frightening breast cancer diagnosis. As she began to contemplate her |
| 1:22.4 | mortality, she started to look at the world with different eyes and was inspired to write songs about |
| 1:27.4 | her experiences during the season that would greatly test her strength. Chris Brown, a worship leader |
| 1:32.9 | and songwriter at Elevation Church has written amazing songs of worship during his life that |
| 1:37.9 | help people feel closer to God. Chris describes how music gets him through difficult times, |
| 1:42.6 | including the loss of his mom and how God shows up for him in those challenging places. |
| 1:47.7 | Let's start with Kelly's story. Hi, I'm Kelly Lang. I'm a singer songwriter and I live in Henderson, |
| 1:55.8 | ville, Tennessee and I'm also a breast cancer survivor of 18 years. |
| 2:04.9 | I was only 36 years old. I was single and I had two children, nine and 13 years old, |
| 2:11.0 | were my little girls. I had a lump under my arm that I only found out because the Oprah Winfrey |
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