“Unmerited Favor” – Rhonda Thomas

“Unmerited Favor”
Rhonda Thomas
From the CD Listen (2010)
Rhonvocals Productions/HNL Records
www.rhondasings.com

“People sometimes ask me, do I have a problem with the music that I sing?”

When Rhonda Thomas posits this question at the outset of “Unmerited Favor,” you know she’s heard it plenty of times before.

The Atlanta-based soul songstress uses the selection to explain that you don’t have to wear a choir robe or sit in church to receive favor. The most important thing you can do, she concludes, is to use the gifts He gave you (in her case, music and singing) to give back to the kingdom. And since favor is unmerited, who’s to say what kind of music God likes or doesn’t like?

Or as Elder Utah Smith once stated, all music is God’s music. So there.

Thomas includes this contemporary inspirational piece on her new neo-soul album, Listen.