I cried out to God like David did when King Saul hated him and was trying to kill him: “How long, O LORD? I realize now that it was like that because the vision was conveying spiritual reality, which is a different world than the visible, material world. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. I Got So High” is in continuity with her country roots, but while these are certainly not disavowed in her recent work, neither are they squarely at the center of it. Who would have thought that Miley Cyrus would become a standard-bearer for this understanding of “everything’s gonna be okay” for the new millennium?

It puts more stress on things you have to do: above all repent of your sins (often with hellfire as a threat), be “born-again,” and practice “good Christian behavior. When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment, for he was stripped for work, and threw himself into the sea. In the dark, I couldn’t see the aquamarine cement floor and cement block walls or the bare wood boards and rafters of the ceiling. I realized that I had been constantly under His supervision, like when our children are small, and we never let them out of our eyesight.

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But if you were in the meat market with me for those three months when I was 21 years old you would not have laughed — you would’ve cried for me. In Merle Haggard’s “Mama Tried,” the protagonist, in retrospect, sings about his regret that he earlier had been proud to be a sinner instead of listening to his mother’s “Sunday learning.After my three days were finished I left the monastery more desperate and dejected then when I had arrived. When Travis Tritt sang about rebelling against the “laws of the Bible Belt,” he presupposed something like this. It seems clear that she has something fresh and interesting to say, and will not be a one-hit-wonder pop star “aging out” of the industry before she finds her mature voice. Most country music religion assumes a different brand of Protestantism, that is considerably less Lutheran in this sense. I Got So High That I Saw Jesus” is a relatively minor song in relation to the “holy shit, I think I’ve become a Miley fan” train of thought I that pursued in the last section, which deserves a separate article.