March 25, 2025

One help while slogging through hard times: Make a playlist of the hymns and songs you heard as a child, the faith and devotion of the saints around you in your early years. Some of these old songs will sound cheesy. Doesn’t matter. Your need is too urgent. Listen, remember, be moved, inspired.

— Ray Ortlund (@rayortlund.bsky.social) December 7, 2024 at 12:53 PM

I took Ray’s suggestion and made a playlist on Spotify. It was a collection of songs that I had already been listening to during the course of my unemployment. They were not necessarily songs that I heard as a child but songs that have encouraged and challenged me over the years or just recently.