Thursday, September 18, 2014

Week 3: "Balm in Gilead" - Paul Roberson



The song that I decided to focus on was Balm in Gilead by Paul Roberson. “Balm in Gilead” was not the only song that enjoyed listening to but also, “Sometimes I feel Like a Motherless Child” and “John Henry”.  Roberson’s deep voice and the sound of the note produce played to express his  lyrics and his feelings is what makes his songs grab my attention. On “Balm in Gilead” the first verse “there is a balm in Gilead, to make the wounded whole” is beautiful and the note of the piano use is a sound my ears have never heard before. It made me feel like I was in Roberson’s arms and my ear feeling his chest, hearing his deep voice causing me to shiver.

Doing more research on the lyrics, I found out that is a reference form the Old Testament. But the lyrics of this song refer to the New Testament mean for the salvation through Jesus Christ. This song is interpreted as a spiritual medicine that is able to heal Israel or in other words the sinners.     

It brought me to a place personal experience becoming a mother. The life I been through has been hell and heaven all at the same time. But once I became a mother I became heal as a person from everything I been through. It was a new light that my eyes receive and able to see my life different than before. My drawing demonstrated three women. The first woman is with close arms feeling alone and in the dark with dark colors and her eyes is downward, expressing sadness. The next is the same drawing of the women but she is beginning to feel more confident of herself starting to let go, maybe of her past or maybe freeing herself to become what she really is. She is pregnant as her eyes are looking downward.  It is color in orange tone, which for me represented a change in her. The last women has a child, they are both in peace, as their eyes are closed. She has been heel as her baby is her spiritual medicine that she has received. Her tone is yellow as if she is receiving light, expression of a new beginning.

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