He really is a, "Good, Good Father".

Making this post has been on my mind for a while, but I never seemed to have the time to sit down and type it. Tonight seems to be the appropriate time. It's also kinda cool that when I sat down to type I noticed that it's been exactly 2 years since my last post. And that I closed out that post with the phrase I'm about to talk about. 👍

First of all, October is my most hated month. All of the really crappy things that have happened in my life have happened in October. I normally start to get sad and quiet as the month approaches. Losing Remedy last week didn't help, but I think that might be why tonight is the night I have the time to put these thoughts into words. I need to be reminded of this truth right now before I let the whole month be ruined. 

 If you read my blog all of those years ago you might remember that the last week of my mom's life she didn't say much. The only thing she repeated many times was, "God is good Brittany. He is soooo good." I'll never not hear that phrase in her voice. That phrase pretty much summed up her entire testimony and she wanted everyone to know it. He truly was so good to us all through that time. That was 2011. 

 In October 2012 I thought my life was going to fall apart again. But instead, God turned a potential tragedy into something more beautiful than it probably ever would have been. Again, God showed me how good He truly is. 💗

 In 2016 Chris Tomlin released, "Good Good Father". Pretty quickly it became very popular to make fun of the song. I think the reasoning was because of the simplicity of the lyrics. And that that, "simplicity" translated to "shallowness". Perhaps I'm wrong and there were other reasons for the teasing. The teasing annoyed me from the beginning only because hearing God described as, "good" was so special to me. 

 ***Let me say right now that up to that point I had made fun of plenty of Christian music. I had laughed at how dumb and shallow they sounded. I still fight my own judgemental attitude about a lot of Christian music.*** 

Ok, back to the topic at hand. 

God is good. You can't deny it. He is a good Father. It's who He is. (see what I did there? 😉)

Just because a word is simple doesn't mean it can't have eternal depth. ( I still have to remind myself of this when I find myself rolling my eyes because of lyrics I've just heard) 

I'm asking one thing of anyone who reads this post. The next time you hear the song, don't turn it off. Listen to it and think about a woman who couldn't say anything other than, "God is good. He is soooo good" as she was dying. I promise the lyrics won't seem as shallow. 💗