Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Songs for Graduation

In case you're ever looking for some special songs for your child's graduation or some other context of growing up, here's my input for you... I used these for James' powerpoint. In context with the pictures, they are even more suitable. Links go to Youtube, and others can be heard on  itunes. Enjoy!

A love song to remind us of life before children.
You and Me ~ Rosie Thomas 

Reflections on Little Ones
Don't Forget Where You Came From ~ Carolyn Arends
Ordinary Miracle ~ Sarah McLachlan

Growing up
Reaching ~ Carolyn Arends
You Cannot Lose My Love ~ Sara Groves
Ordinary Miracle ~ Amy Sky
Fingerprints of God ~ Steven Curtis Chapman
Wait and See ~ Brandon Heath

Life with brothers/family/friends
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother ~ The Hollies
(Theme from) The Monkees ~ The Monkees
Our House ~ Madness
Brothers ~ Leeroy Stagger

Letting go & moving on
Time of Your Life (Good Riddance) ~ Green Day
Find Your Wings ~ Mark Harris
I Was Here ~ Lady Antebellum
Take My Life (And Let It Be) ~ Chris Tomlin

God's goodness, Our gratitude
Your Praise Goes On ~ Chris RiceThank you (Get It Right) ~ Erin O'Donnell
Faithful God ~ Laura Story

2 comments:

Ann said...

Fun list, though in that Family category you can't forget Sister Sledge: We are Family. :) Check out the crazy video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNAQ8LLptUo&feature=fvst

Good old Carole King has one of my favourite songs from parent to child: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bDrB47giqs

And I love Cindy Morgan's "Thank you Lord" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1ODIFfo1KE&feature=related) in the thanks category

Ah - I love music. It'd be fun to hang out with you and Rob and brainstorm songs together, as I'm sure he'd have lots to throw in the list . . . though maybe not appropriate ones :).

Susan said...

Oh yes, I definitely considered "We are Family", but it's a lot of "I've got all my sisters with me..." which doesn't really work for us! This is my list of songs I used, I didn't even get to my back up list as I have to save some for the other guys! You can send along your ideas for Charles... we've got a year to collect those. :) And yes, the three of us would have fun finding songs together for any theme!

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