Simon & Garfunkel – Jackson Community Church

Reflections on Veterans Day

SONGS for VETERANS DAY (patriotic & critiques, plus songs from different veteran and veterans’ family experiences): Paradise by Craig Morgan (country): https://youtu.be/f8tn020YucU Just Came Home by Darryl Worley (country): https://youtu.be/KwpO8Q1u4Ss Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen (rock): https://youtu.be/EPhWR4d3FJQ America by Neil Diamond (rock/pop): https://youtu.be/wTSLRbm8L9E Dear Uncle Sam by Loretta Lynn (countrry): https://youtu.be/ZwOhZufXYso Letters from […]

A Valentine’s Note from JCC: Songs and poems about different kinds of love: for people, for the world, for each other (hopeful, sad, reflective, rowdy)

SONGS about LOVE: One Love by Bob Marley (reggae):https://youtu.be/g94A1R8xHcQ Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher by Jackie Wilson (rock):https://youtu.be/mzDVaKRApcg What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong (rock/blues): https://youtu.be/2nGKqH26xlg What the World Needs Now by Jackie DeShannon (ballad): https://youtu.be/YUaxVQPohlU Gentle On My Mind by Glen Campbell (country): https://youtu.be/ETkzK9pXMio You Raise Me Up performed by 12 Tenors […]

Reflections on water, wellsprings, and milestones such as upcoming graduation

In a season of drought, let’s focus on water stewarsdhip and appreciation. Let’s also consider its spiritual resonances, and take time to savor upcoming milestones such as graduations. Songs about water: Something in the Water by Carrie Underwood (country/Christian) Hold Back the River by James Bay (pop ballad) Black Water by the Doobie Brothers (country) […]

Acknowledging the challenges of these times: responding to loss & trauma

Your hearts are troubled,and it is no sacrilege to let them be so …— Maren Tirabassi I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow.Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.― C.S. Lewis Your name is upon my tongueyour image is in my sightyour memory is in my […]