By Rafael Solece
Music has power. It has the ability to take you to places in your imagination, in your memory, in yourself that you thought you could never go. It has the unique ability of being able to restore and recall memories, or emotions that you thought were long gone. Most of it has the power to break you down or build up. There have been many song s throughout the course of my life that have had some significant to my life at some point. Directly mirroring the anger, pain, sadness that I was feeling at that time in my life; and it was that music that brought me through whatever it was that I was going through.
When my grandmother died it was that song "Mama" by Boys-II-Men. When I was a teenage pining over love it was Brandy "Sitting Up in My Room". When I was experiencing my first heart break/break up it was Jagged Edge "He Can't Love You" Through my first secrete crush it was Patti Labelle's "If Only You Knew." When I was falling for my first love it was Luther "If Only for One Night" and through my first major grown up Relationship it was "SuperStar" Luther again.
I am sure we all can go through the memory banks of our mind and think of songs that sang volumes to us at certain points in our lives. I definitely know that I can; as you can see. But there are some songs that echo so much wisdom that they get us through so much more in love, because the lyrics in them just don't speak to pain, hurt, love, loss. But instead it speaks to almost every aspect of life, or at least speaks volumes to what is going on in this season of your life. That song for me right now in my life and has been for the last two years has been a cut by Alicia Keys the queen of the Keys as I have dubbed her. The song "Lesson Learned" It started out as my break up song when I was trying to leave my Ex. But it quickly became the mantra for all that I had been through in my life. For everything that I had learned, and experienced during my growth as a child; adolescent, teenager, adult, Man of God! I call it my spiritual Song. I have several spiritual Heart songs but this one, this one brings me through. So I listen to it quite often.
True this song has a very deep and sentimental value for me, because it really has been my fight song through so many moments in my life for the last 2 years. But the song itself resonates on so many levels about the lessons of life. About how the things that we go through are nothing but test, and those test are God's teaching methods in this here classroom, that we call life. As I am sitting here writing this and it is playing in my ear buds, and as the tears are welling up in my eyes, I am thinking of my own story how this, it's lyrics were a blessing to me, and still is on so many level's. One of my favorite lines of this song is in the bridge.
"Life perfect , ain't perfect if you don't know what the struggles for; Falling down ain't falling down if you don't cry when you hit the floor; it's called the past cause I'm getting pass and I ain't nothing like I was before: you ought to see me now: yes I was burn but I call it a lesson learned." Alicia Keys
It is the most power verse in the whole song. Yes we go through thing s but if life was all roses and butter cups; how much of a life would it be? What kind of person would you be? You need mountains, you need hills. You need valleys. You need the things that happen to you in life because they are the things that mold the makeup of you. And those things make up the story that will inevitably give you wisdom, give you courage, and give you strength to be able to deal with anything that may come your way. Because you got through the things that came before. But the journey of your life you must understand is not really for or about you. It really is about your story true! But it is your story, your valley's, your hills, your mountains, your struggles, your triumphs, your successes, and your failures; it is all of these things that will be used by The Most High to bless, encourage, save someone else.
Our trials, tribulations, our successes, our struggles, our getting over, are our stories, those stories are our testimonies, and our testimonies are blessings to someone else going through something in their life. The things that we go through in life are hard, and yes they are meant to teach us things. To teach us how to survive, how to love, how to be humble, how to be patient, how to pray… But as much as our struggles are for us, they are more for others. Sometimes The Most High takes you through things so that your story can encourage and strengthen someone else. Or sometimes simply to let someone going through something know that they are not the only person going through.
I mean honestly think about the last time you were going through a situation, and you were down and hurt and discouraged. Don't you remember God sending you someone to you to help you through? They didn't hand you a way out, but they handed you their story and they were going through a hard time to, a situation like yours; maybe even worst. But they had a smile on their face and they were persevering. Or they had come through it and they were telling how they came through. Hell, maybe they were just telling someone else how they had come through. But you were listening intently maybe unintentionally. But they're story encouraged you on. You remembered their disposition. You remembered their joy. You remembered that they were surviving,
You would be surprised at how many times you've actually been going through something and God has used it to affect someone else's change, and struggle. That time you were telling your story to a close friend and that friend told your same story to another friend going through a similar situation and because you shared your story unknowingly someone else found the strength to preserver, to survive, to fight, to win, and to achieve. You don't know that because of you someone decided to go to rehab, to go back to school. To change careers. You don't know who is watching you and who took strength from your struggle and it made them strong.
Our lessons Learned are just that; our lessons learned but they are blessings for someone else. They words of encouragement. Pats on the back. Love letters to someone's soul. Remember that what god brings you through it is your gift of love to bring someone else over. Embrace life, and learn your lessons with humility. Remember that your Learned are someone else's Blessing Turned.
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