Crucial Track for July 21, 2025

"If I Could" by Mineral

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Share a song that feels like a prayer.

There are so many that fit here. One that stands out though is If I Could by Mineral. To be clear (because it gets more debate than it should): Mineral isn't a Christian band. A lot of there songs feel like explorations of life and spirituality and people make assumptions from that. If I Could is like this. I love the last verse:

> And I know I don't deserve this > The capacity to feel > To laugh and to cry and to praise > For that I live and breathe and wake each day > Is nothing less than your grace > In awkward and glorious movement

That kind of encapsulates life: whether a prayer to the universe, Jesus, some other conception of god(s), or something else entirely, it's an "awkward and glorious movement" of grace.