Can Queen change a life?

Most of you know, I'm a pretty big Queen freak. So, anyways, I was checking out Brian May's website yesterday, www.brianmay.com, and I saw this link to a part of the website called "Vicki's World". Thought it must've been something to do with his wife... but wait, his wife's name is Anita... it's Geoff Bullock's wife who is called Victoria, I think. Anyway...

I clicked on the link, and saw a picture of a 12-ish yr old girl with short hair. After a bit more perusal, I discovered it was the biographic site of a young girl named Vicki Moore, who had been diagnosed with cancer. Well, not just cancer, but lots of cancer. In her spine and brain... and yeah... anyway, somehow she discovered Queen's music, and she writes several times in her journal about how she would listen to Queen and that would be her safe place, where she would be able to find peace and forget about her illness and pain and just shut everything out. And she ended up meeting Brian May and he gave her a spot on his website where her journal is now located.

Now, this got me thinking... Queen aren't a Christian band, they didn't play under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, in fact, this afternoon I was listening to Queen and in my spirit, just was not enjoying it... I turned it off and it was like - woah. I don't think God's telling me I'm not allowed to listen to Queen, but sometimes, I think he wants me to listen to music that specifically is anointed by him, or ... well, just Christian music. But, I digress. My point is, if Queen can have that sort of effect... why can't the church?

Sometimes, I think there's more to the spiritual realm than what we Christians see. Is it as cut and dried as God and Satan? Or is there some sort of spiritual element to our basic humanity? If psychics power comes only from satan and demons, then why did Samuel come back up when the Witch of Endor summoned him? I was talking to one of my work friends last week about laying hands on people and healing them and stuff... he's a Catholic and he told me about how at his church one time, the priest came and laid hands on this little girl from their church and she was healed... a lot of pentecostals might question that... but you know, he started talking about Reiki and stuff... new age stuff... and... well, at first I gave my Christian-pat-answer, "that's from the dark side", etc, etc... and it probably is... but deep inside, I honestly wonder about stuff like that... the other stuff... and I wanted to be honest with him. It's just one of those things that I don't want to be afraid to question, I don't want to just give a pat Christian answer that I've been taught and conditioned to say, instead of what I really believe or am not sure of. In everything, I want to be genuine, even if that means admitting doubt - not to the detriment of faith, though. But I don't want to be afraid to question things I don't understand.

Okay, way off topic. So, tonight at music practice, we all had to go round and share our dream. And one of the guys there talked about bringing to the earth a sound from heaven, heaven's music... something like that... not just music that sounds like what's on the radio... and that really struck a chord with me (no pun intended!) and reminded me of what I read on the Brian May website.

How much more, should Christian musicians be able to usher into this earth the sound of heaven... a sound that is not of this earth... a sound that is so different... a sound that changes people's lives... a sound that brings life, that brings healing, that brings people to Jesus! I've heard Ian Fisher from Hillsong Church talk about this sorta thing... and I wanna be a part of that. I want to play music that goes beyond the sense of hearing, even beyond emotions, maybe... music that maybe even touches the spirit of man. Music that God can use to bring healing, freedom to the captives, that speaks his love to people's lives...

I've heard some music that I think does this for me. I dunno if it's just my emotions, or if it's God... maybe it's both. I think God can minister to our emotions through music. But I wanna play music that heals emotions, permanently, that just sets people free inside!!!

Okay, I'm going to bed now. Good night all.

Love,
the gregglesaurus =)

PS Hi to Penny! :D who I'm hoping likes my blog!