i remember i remember when i lost my mind

The song, which was officially released on 3/13/06, may have been ubiquitous to the point of instant familiarity - hands up, who got it stuck in their heads partway through this first paragraph? - but the more angles you look at “Crazy” from, the weirder it gets that it’s had this much of an impact on pop music. But few acts of the aughts have that similar “where’d they come from”/”where’d they go” push-pull as Gnarls Barkley, whose “Crazy” made a one-hit wonder out of two artists you could hardly call that when separated. Tell somebody from the year 2006 that the song feels like a lucky yet brief radar blip in the midst of two wildly diverging musical careers, and they’d probably have the same reaction. As a child of God I’m thankful for His word, and the new life He freely gives.Tell somebody from the year 2003 that the producer half of Lex Records cult-rap act DM & Jemini would team up with the recently solo Goodie Mob alumni CeeLo for one of the decade’s most definitive singles, and they’d think you were out of your mind. He will work in me, to transform my mind and my life. There is such comfort in the knowledge that I can have the mind of Christ as His follower. What good news! It is an extraordinary gift from God. 9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ isLord, to the glory of God the Father.ġ2 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling 13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. even if no one else is.ĥ Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. Not just because I say I am, but because I’m truly following. But, when I begin to follow Him, humbly and sacrificially – I become a true believer. But the truth is this: As I exchange my mind for His, my thoughts and desires lost in His will, it changes my actions. You can start out, as a believer, with verbal confirmation- telling others the choice you’ve made – and that is a good place to start. I can’t help but compare this to following Jesus. As my feet hit the pavement for 2 miles, my lungs burning, I kept thinking, “I have lost my ever-loving mind!” That day I was the only one there usually there are quite a few exercising.

I had decided that I wasn’t just a runner because I said I was – I’m a runner because I run, even if it is difficult. But, that’s not the point the running must go on. Back then I didn’t know the frigid temps would dive so low.

Weeks ago I committed to stick with it, I couldn’t give up already.

See, I’m working on this training plan to run a 10K later this spring. In 26 degree F, 16 F windchill type of weather, I got up and out of the car and its lovely heated seats and went for a run. There was something so special about that placeĮven your emotions have an echo in so much space I remember, I remember when I lost my mind I sat in my car with my earbuds in, music playing – urging me to get out of the car… The words got to me:

I remember i remember when i lost my mind