{"id":3603,"date":"2012-10-24T11:33:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2012-10-24T11:38:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T15:38:40","slug":"dare-we-name-the-single-best-song-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3603","title":{"rendered":"Dare we name the single “best song” (ever)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was recently asked what one song \u2013 one song<\/em> \u2013 do I hold as “the best”?<\/p>\n

What a question!<\/p>\n

It would be a song for the ages. If there was only to be a single song ever played again, which one would it be?<\/p>\n

Difficult as this question is, I had an instant response:\u00a0 Point of Light<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Point of Light<\/em> was co-written by Don Schlitz and Thom Schuyler and recorded by American country music artist Randy Travis in 1991. The inspirational lyrics are below and the official video can be seen here:\u00a0 Point of Light<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0There is a point when you can not walk away.
\nWhen you have to stand up straight and tall and mean the words you say.
\nThere is a point you must decide just to do it because it’s right.
\nThat’s when you become a point of light.<\/p>\n

There is a darkness which everyone must face.
\nIt wants to take what’s good and fair and turn it all to waste,
\nAnd this darkness covers everything in sight – until it meets a
\nsingle point of light.<\/p>\n

Refrain:<\/em>\u00a0 All it takes is a point of light.
\nA ray of hope in the darkest night.
\nIf you see what’s wrong, and you try
\nand make it right, you will be a point of light.<\/p>\n

There are heroes whose names we’ll never hear.
\nA dedicated army of quiet volunteers.
\nReaching out to help the homeless.
\nReaching out to save the land.
\nReaching out to help their fellow man.<\/p>\n

There are dreamers who are making
\ndreams come true.
\nTaking time to teach the children
\nthat there’s nothing they can’t do.
\nReach out to help the hungry.
\nReaching out to those without.
\nIsn’t that what this land’s all about?<\/p>\n

Repeat refrain above and then sing:<\/em>
\nIf you see what’s wrong and you try
\nand make it right, you will be a point
\nof light.<\/p>\n

So, let us ask you, “What one song do you hold as “the best”?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was recently asked what one song \u2013 one song \u2013 do I hold as “the best”? What a question! It would be a song for the ages. If there was only to be a single song ever played again, which one would it be? Difficult as this question is, I had an instant response:\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3611,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions\/3611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}