You can tell a lot about a person by their iPod...

Just out of curiosity I looked to see what my Top Ten most played songs on my iPod were. Interesting. I never would have guessed it. Here they are...

10. "Unforgettable" by Nat King Cole

09. "Reminiscing" by Little River Band

08. "Carlisle Wheeling" by The Monkees (My most played Monkees song!)

07. "Something" by The Beatles (There was no way there was NOT going to be at least one Beatles song in my Top 10!)

06. "I Love You (For Sentimental Reasons)" by Nat King Cole (I was not expecting there to be TWO NKC songs, however...)

05. "What's New" by Charlie Watts (This is the drummer of the Rolling Stones. He has a jazz combo on the side that records the smoothest versions of old standards. Great stuff!)

04. "In My Life" by The Beatles (My most played Beatles song... This song is songwriting genius.)

03. "Photograph" by Ringo Starr (Now this surprised me, I must confess. I mean, this is a great song but of all the solo Beatles to show up in my Top Ten, I would have expected McCartney. Ringo would be the last one I expected to see. Strangely fitting, though...)

02. "I've Got a Crush On You" by Charlie Watts

and the number one most played song on Jerry's iPod is... (drum roll, please)

01. "Chances Are" by Johnny Mathis

I'm not kidding. It really is. I am totally in love with this song. I grab my wife and we slow dance every time it comes on. Freaks our kids out. They run screaming from the room, "AAAAGH! Old people in love!" This has become one of our "special" songs. You know what I mean. ;-)

So I have to admit that this surprised me somewhat. I mean I love all these songs and they come up in the rotation regularly but I would have guessed I would see more power pop and modern rock stuff. I mean one Monkees song only? And not even one of my top favorites. No McCartney? No Cheap Trick? No U2 for cryin' out loud!!! How is that possible?

Nevertheless, I learned a little something about myself by looking at this list. I'm even more of a hopeless romantic than I thought. Actually, "hopeless" is not the right term; I am a hope-full romantic. Some would call it schmaltzy. But I am so crazy in love with my wife that I find I gravitate toward those songs that celebrate that. If you take a close look at all these songs there are common themes: faithfulness, loyalty, marriage, family, treasuring those relationships that make life worth living. These songs may not reflect my musical loves but they completely reflect my heart.

I also noticed there weren't any "Christian" songs in the list. But the songs that are there celebrate the kind of love that can only come from knowing the Author of Love. So when I sing them, they are coming from my heart, which is a new creation in Christ. So in that since, they are all "Christian" songs.

Looking at the next ten songs it doesn't change much. Cheap Trick and Macca and John Lennon show up finally but singing romantic love songs: "Carrying," "My Love," "Woman," "If You Want My Love"... There is even an Elvis song, "I Can't Help Falling in Love With You." And another Beatles tune, "And I Love Her." And more Charlie Watts.

I may be a rocker on the surface. But I carry the heart of a lover. At least, that's what my iPod tells me.