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Praise Team Practice - Jesus, Take the Wheel

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Well its time to go and hear my wife sing wonderfully in praise team practice, I want her to learn a song called Jesus, take the wheel, its a wonderful song. I found some info on the song on Wikipedia:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Single by Carrie Underwood
from the album Some Hearts
Released October 2005 (U.S.)
Format Digital download
Genre
Country/Pop/Christian

Length 3:47

Label
Arista

Writer(s)
Hillary Lindsey

Gordie Sampson
Brett James

Producer(s)
Mark Bright

Certification
Platinum (RIAA)

Chart positions

#20 (U.S.)

Carrie Underwood singles chronology

Inside Your Heaven

(2005)
“Jesus, Take the Wheel”

(2005)
Dont Forget to Remember Me

(2006)

“Jesus, Take the Wheel” is the first single from American Idol season four winner Carrie Underwood’s debut album, Some Hearts. The music video for it was originally slated for release on November 4, 2005 but was delayed and made available at a later date on Yahoo! Launch.

The song tells the story of a young mother who lives a hectic life. On her late-night drive on a snow-covered road in Cincinnati, Ohio, the woman begins sorting out her emotions and bemoans not having enough time to do the things that really matter. Then, her car hits a patch of black ice, causing the woman to lose control of her car. She panics and cries out the title line of the song; shortly thereafter, she is able to regain control of the car and bring it to a stop. After taking stock of the situation (and seeing that her baby has remained fast asleep in the rear seat), the woman vows to give her life to Christ.

In April 2006 “Jesus, Take the Wheel” was certified Platinum by the RIAA.

With six weeks at the pole position of the Billboard Country Singles chart, the song ties Faith Hill’s “Breathe” as a runner-up for longest-running number-one by a solo female artist, a record held by Connie Smith. Smith’s “Once a Day” had an eight-week run at number one in 1964-65.

It proved to be a crossover hit, eventually making it to number twenty on the Billboard Hot 100

chart and selling over 540,000 digital downloads.

On March 2, 2006, Carrie Underwood went back to American Idol to perform the song.

On May 23, 2006, at the 41st Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, “Jesus, Take the Wheel” was named Single of the Year.

The song was written by Brett James, Hillary Lindsey and Gordie Sampson.

Here are the lyrics to the song:

Jesus, take the wheel

(Carrie Underwood)

She was driving last Friday on her way to Cincinnati
On a snow white Christmas Eve
Going home to see her Mama and her Daddy with the baby in the backseat
Fifty miles to go and she was running low on faith and gasoline
It been a long hard year
She had a lot on her mind and she didn’t pay attention
She was going way to fast
Before she knew it she was spinning on a thin black sheet of glass
She saw both their lives flash before her eyes
She didn’t even have time to cry
She was sooo scared
She threw her hands up in the air

Jesus take the wheel
Take it from my hands
Cause I can’t do this all on my own
I’m letting go
So give me one more chance
To save me from this road I’m on
Jesus take the wheel

It was still getting colder when she made it to the shoulder
And the car came to a stop
She cried when she saw that baby in the backseat sleeping like a rock
And for the first time in a long time
She bowed her head to pray
She said I’m sorry for the way
I’ve been living my life
I know I’ve got to change
So from now on tonight

Jesus take the wheel
Take it from my hands
Cause I can’t do this all my own
I’m letting go
So give me one more chance
To save me from this road I’m on

Oh, Jesus take the wheel
Oh, I’m letting go
So give me one more chance
Save me from this road I’m on
From this road I’m on
Jesus take the wheel
Oh, take it, take it from me
Oh, why, oh

Written by Robert Turner

August 1st, 2006 at 5:46 pm

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Loss of motivation

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I’m sitting at work trying to get motivated by my outstanding workload, its hard, Ive been working the same job for a while and the workload once you get what your doing is not that diverse and its alway people with problems, things not working, payment issues. There is quite allot of thanks available but its just not that fulfilling anymore…

Im considering my next move. Time to pray.

Written by Robert Turner

August 1st, 2006 at 1:31 pm

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I really should settle on one blog space and stic…

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I really should settle on one blog space and stick with it, I have blogger.com, live journal, xanga, myspace, msncommunity and it continues to grow with yahoo 360 and so on, I’m trying to link to all of them from my site http://www.eternalsummertime.ca/, if you want to read how messed up I was before I met my wife and found Christ them my livejournal it the one to read.

I was on anti-depressants and smoke dope because I was depressed but I was more depressed and also gave me paranoia which I still get effected by now :( , life was predictable and I because an automiton, I was very capable at my job and in that environment I was like a fish in a tank, I knew all the stones, weeds and other fish, take me out of that tank and put me in the lake which was the rest of my life and I would stay behind a big rock and hide from all the other fishies.

Falling in love with my now wife was an act of God, it was like I took the bait from the line God threw into the lake that was my life and it floated down beside me and I latched onto it and have never looked back. Sometimes I get it into my head that I decided that I wanted to move to Canada, it was me, all my doing but I know it wasnt in my heart of hearts.

My nan who all my life has been a spiritualist and has had that site that allows her to know things told me since I was 18 that I would move when I hit a certain age and I would meet someone at the same time too, well she either by telling me made it occur or she had been given that insight into the futur e, I like to believe the latter, she new what God had instore for me and she continues to know things and write me letters weekly.

Now I am here, I have to ask God, in the style of President Bartlett from the West Wing, “Whats Next?”

Feeling “relaxed”
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Written by Robert Turner

August 1st, 2006 at 8:49 am

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