Secular music

 Do you know I used to listen to secular music?

On that little clock radio. The ear buds still worked. I’d listen to 104.7, all the hits, all the dirty songs. Probably when I was like 15 years old on up.

Eventually I got my mp3 player and I would listen to it on that. Sunday nights the Dawson McCalister show would come on and I would listen to troubled teens call in about their lives. Sometimes I thought about calling too, but my problems seemed so small compared to theirs.

The worst thing was getting a secular song stuck in my head and trying not to hum it, or if I accidentally slipped up you asking me how I learned that song. That only happened a few times, I didn’t slip up very often. But I knew my radio and mp3 player was toast if I ever slipped up.

There were some absolutely great songs out then though. 

I wish we could have shared that together. Looking back, secular music was the least of what I needed to be protected from.