A number of years ago, I was in a bad place. Outwardly, things were going well, but on the inside things were out of sorts. A friend of mine from high school showed up unexpectedly one day with a new find, a Cadillac Eldorado from the year of our graduation, and asked me out for a quick ride to show it off. We got in and started down the road. He turned on the radio; I didn't even know he was a Christian.
It has been a spiritual tonic for me ever since.
The other song has a much deeper and darker history with me. Back in the early 90's, I was a successful network salesman. I was making tons of money. I had a wife and kids and living the suburban dream. Then, from October to November, I started downhill with a strange illness that started out as a bad chest cold and ended up with me stashed in the Oncology ward with nobody really knowing what was wrong. It's a long story about how I made it back. However, it all started while I was listening to this:
