Fallen Away Christians...My Top CD is "Annie Lennox's "A Christimas Cornucopia"

[KoKo]

She did the album sometime after the Iraq Invasion and I was so devastated by what my Christian Country had done I was in a total funk and felt so betrayed.

(It's incredibly international...if you like that kind of thing...which I do)

But, her album has gotten me through many Christmases since.

So...for other Fallen Away Christians...check it out on Amazon or wherever you get your music these days. See if you find it inspiring and more in tune with the cynical views we may have these days...but, it gives me HOPE whenever, this time of year, I listen to it.

What are some Christian CD's the rest of you find inspiring if you've "fallen away" but, not so far that you have given up belief in anything.

What do you like that sustains you that's BEYOND the pap/canned stuff playing in the stores when you are alone or with close friends and famlies who have your own Radical Reformist Christian views?

BTW: I am a Chris Hedges Reformist advocate...to be clear where I stand. I think he is a prophet for REFORM.

[KoKo]

1. a little more about Annie...if anyone is interested...

Annie Lennox
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Annie Lennox
OBE

Annie Lennox performing at the Rally for Human Rights during the International AIDS Conference 2010 in Vienna as part of her SING Campaign.
Background information
Birth name Ann Lennox
Born 25 December 1954 (age 57)
Origin Aberdeen, Scotland
Genres Pop, pop rock, rock, soul, blue-eyed soul, New Wave, R&B, electronica
Occupations Singer-songwriter, activist, humanitarian ambassador
Instruments Vocals, piano, keyboards, guitar, accordion, harmoniumflute
Years active 1975–present
Labels RCA, Arista (1981–2009)
Island, Decca (2010–)
Associated acts The Catch, The Tourists, Eurythmics
Website www.annielennox.com

Ann "Annie" Lennox, OBE (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s as part of the New Wave band The Tourists, she and fellow musician David A. Stewart went on to achieve major international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics. Lennox is the most recognized female artist at the Brit Awards, winning a total of eight awards. She has also been named the "Brits Champion of Champions".[1]

Lennox embarked on a solo career in the 1990s with her debut album, Diva (1992), which produced several hit singles including "Why" and "Walking on Broken Glass". To date, she has released five solo studio albums and a compilation album, The Annie Lennox Collection (2009). She is the recipient of eight Brit Awards, four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award. In 2002, Lennox received a Billboard Century Award; the highest accolade from Billboard Magazine.[2] In 2004, she won both the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Into the West", written for the soundtrack to the feature film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.[3]

In addition to her career as a musician, Lennox is also a political and social activist, notable for raising money and awareness for HIV charities in Africa. She also objected to the unauthorised use of the 1999 Eurythmics song "I Saved the World Today" in an election broadcast for Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in 2009.[4] In 2011, Lennox was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for her "tireless charity campaigns and championing of humanitarian causes".[2][5] On 4 June 2012, Lennox performed at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert in front of Buckingham Palace, London.[6]

Lennox has been named "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by VH1 and one of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone.[7] She has earned the distinction of "most successful female British artist in UK music history" due to her commercial success since the early 1980s. Including her work within Eurythmics, Lennox has sold over 80 million records worldwide.[8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Lennox

[NYC_SKP]

2. She is among my favorites, no question.

I'm meh on Christmas, love some of it, detest other parts.

I miss my childhood and the big extended family things that came along.

And the joy of a used girls bicycle that Uncle Larry (not a real uncle) brought me, my first bike, loved it.

Small things, big joy!

Happy Holidays!

Big Joy!

[KoKo]

3. "Small Things...Big Joy!" Memories like the Watercolors of my Mind!

Lovely memories...we keep and cherish them in our hearts FOREVER! It's the Joy of those memories which SUSTAINS! Which Gives HOPE.

Her "Universal Child" tune from that CD is just incredibly beautiful and "sustaining" for all our hopes and dreams...for the future.