Carisa Turner

Tune My Heart Podcast

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As you probably know, Lent starts this Ash Wednesday. I wrote some thoughts on Lent about 6 years ago. I think my views have matured a little more sense then, but I still don’t entirely participate in Lent. Again, mostly because I don’t know how. I am waiting for Jonathan Gibson, who wrote the Advent to Epiphany guide and has an Easter through Pentecost guide come out soon (check back next Monday for my review), to write one on Lent, hopefully next year. It has been a few months sense I’ve read through the Psalms, so I’ll probably use that Lent as a reason to jump back in.

All that to say, if you are looking for something to do, I have a suggestion – check out the Tune My Heart podcast, which you can find it on Spotify, or any other app of choice (as always: rate, review, subscribe). Tune My Heart is a 30 day, daily worship and prayer liturgy. It is based on the Book of Common Prayer, so if you are Anglican (or one of they other churches who use it) it’ll be familiar and easy to enjoy. If you don’t know the BCP, you’ll enjoy this as something new and different.

The series is 30 episodes long and Lent is 40 days (plus 6 Sundays), so you have built in time in case you miss days. Each episode is less than 10 minutes which can fit into your morning commute, if you are still one of those people (like me) that has to commute every day, or easy enough to wake up a few minute earlier for. Check out the Welcome intro below for more information, then go find it and subscribe wherever you get your podcast.

Music Friday: Sprout Edition

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Recently, I had a post about Covid Life with my daughter, Sprout, and I told the story wherein she listed her top five play list. So, here it is. I’ll skip Number 1, as it is what she called ‘Frozen songs’. These are obviously the songs from the Frozen movies, which I will not post here because anyone with kids has heard them too much, and I am afraid Disney will sue me. So, Number 2:

Mommy Songs – Mrs. MMT happens to be an award winning singer/songwriter. We listen to her songs sometimes, as well as other independent female artist. Not surprisingly, Sprout is a big fan, and this is my favorite song by Mrs. MMT, so I selected it as representative of Sprout’s ‘radio’.

Number 3:

Fire Songs – These are alternatively called ‘daddy songs’, her favorite, and mine (they’ve been posted multiple times here) is Wolves at the Gate. She calls them ‘fire songs’, due to the use of fire (at least three of their videos alone), which also feature prominently in this video. She has asked me when she can get a ‘ring nose’, as well.

Number 4:

Piano Songs – As mentioned above, Mrs. MMT is a bit of musician, and play the piano. We listen to a good bit of ‘Piano Guys’, so that may be what she is talking about, though we listen to true classical as well. Even more so, she is a big fan of Cello, especially during Christmas music season, so I’m going to go with these guys. Bonus points, some Frozen in there.

Number 5:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_VcNUgG2Yk

Pizza Songs – So, every Friday night for probably about a decade Mrs. MMT and I have had pizza for dinner. First, it was out, then frozen pizzas, then making from scratch. Probably since Sprout has been little, we’ve also listened to our Pandora station of Irish Pub songs, which includes a lot of folk, parody/comedy, and drinking songs. For whatever reason, likely the ease of singing, she has really enjoyed these songs. So much so, that when she was three and in pre-school, the week she was the ‘star-student’ she was able to pick the song of the week, and she chose the one above, from a 90’s Canadian fold band about loggers. These guys seem to be her favorite, and this is the song she knows best, along with ‘No, Neigh, Never’, ‘Good Luck to the Barely Mow’, and ‘Byker Hill’. As she had her whole pre-school class listen to this song, I thought it was best representative.

So, if Sprout could listen to five stations on her radio, this is what they would be. Hope you enjoyed. Should be fun for her to see this when she is older. You always wonder what will remain. Hopefully, at least ‘Frozen’ will be gone.