Hello all. I am new to this message board. Having just discovered Mindy a few days ago, I am still listening to her music with awe and amazement.
Maybe a lot of you have felt this but I must say how much her music and lyrics speak to my heart. Life is a swirling derby of pain and darkness most of the time. On my way home from work I put in her CD and listen to an angel sing to me and for a just a little bit I am not stuck in traffic, my heart does not break for someone I cannot have and for that moment I am someplace where no one can hurt me.
This line from It’s Amazing says so much, “They don’t love you because they don’t know you like I do…” That is so true. I think that everyday. I love someone very much and she asks me why I do. I answer back because I know you, I see the light you have, and I see the way everyone smiles when you walk into the room.
Mindy’s words of hope and love quiet the heart of this poor lovesick soul.
God Bless you all and Mindy, keep up the wonderful work.
Yours In Christ
Friedpie
When i first got mindys album i was in a rough place in my faith, somewhere between wanting to still believe and not believing in spite of my self. I was also very heavily into something i knew was a sin and though i was raised very much christian i could not keep myself from repeating my actions. It was a horrible cycle of repenting just because thats what i had always done (and knowing i should be doing it not just out of routine, but acctually meaning it), and then turning straight back to it. At that moment in my life i know that the only thing holding me to my faith was the fear of hell that i had had programmed into me since i was a child. and thats not what being a christian is about. Anyways while all this was going on I had just got mindys album one moment more, and the night i first heard “hard to know” i had just gotten home from a sunday night worship service where walking through the doors of the church that night i had broken down in tears, so coming home i put in the mindy album, i still dont know why, but i pressed the random button and on came “hard to know”. This song was like the final step in my redeption and its like my theme song now.
Prior to today I had never heard of Mindy Smith. I took a nap at lunch time (I work/live on a horse farm so I take lunch at home) and set my alarm to wake me up. I awoke to hear “You Just Forgot” on my local NPR station. I was still in a daze from sleep when I realized that I was crying. I’ve been divorced for a little over three years now and nearly every song can feel like it was written for, or about you I know, but the words just hit me hard. It felt like the conversation I had with my wife a couple of weeks after our separation was being played back to me through my alarm clock radio. Wow. I’ve been listening to Mrs. Smith’s music all evening and it has only gotten better, particularly “One Moment More”. At any rate I just want to say that I’m deeply moved by this music and I wish Mrs. Smith all the best in her career and personal life.
Thanks,
John