Roll Away Your Stone (the rest of the lyrics)

The more I listen to this song, the more I like it.

The video is below, in the previous post. 

Roll away your stone, I’ll roll away mine
Together we can see what we will find
Don’t leave me alone at this time,
For I'm afraid of what I will discover inside

Cause you told me that I would find a hole,
Within the fragile substance of my soul
And I have filled this void with things unreal,
And all the while my character it steals

Darkness is a harsh term don’t you think?
And yet it dominates the things I see

It seems that all my bridges have been burned,
But you say that’s exactly how this grace thing works
It’s not the long walk home that will change this heart,
But the welcome I receive with the restart

Darkness is a harsh term don’t you think?
And yet it dominates the things I see
Darkness is a harsh term don’t you think?
And yet it dominates the things I've seen

Stars hide your fires,
These here are my desires
And I won't give them up to you this time around
And so, I’ll be found with my stake stuck in this ground
Marking the territory of this newly impassioned soul

But you, you’ve gone too far this time
You have neither reason nor rhyme
With which to take this soul that is so rightfully mine

Listening to this today...

Thanks to Milton over at Don't Eat Alone.

These lyrics were a needed lift...

it seems that all my bridges have been burned
but you say, 'that's exactly how this grace thing works’
it's not the long walk home that will change this heart
but the welcome I receive with every start


May you be lifted, too.

Monday Morning Music (take 2)

My mom informed me my last clip had been removed for copyright issues. (At least Mom reads my blog, occasionally)

I have had an amazing few months and have obviously struggled to put them into words. For reasons I am not even sure of, I would like to put into words the thoughts, emotions, and experiences and share them here. Time will tell if this happens.

In the meantime, here is another tune that has been in the playlist during this time...

Music for Monday Morning

P: Opened my mail to send you this link. My heart pounds and I tear up when I hear the first few notes of this song,       

almost every time. Looks like I am not alone. Thought it would be a good way to start a Monday...

M: Amazing.  it’s pavlovian, the tears.  I swear this is the song that we will be hearing as we crest the hill to the other side. 

There is Beauty...

"How Children Raise Their Parents"

"Perhaps there is nothing in this world as powerful to break selfishness as is the simple act of looking at our own children. In our love for them we are given a privileged avenue to feel as God feels - to burst in unselfishness, in joy, in delight, and in the desire to let another's life be more real and important than our own"                                                            - Ronald Rolheiser

          

Something Else (Intercession, part 2)

A couple days after posting my last entry (Intercession), I was watching the video of U2 playing "40". I noticed that for this song Adam Clayton and The Edge had switched positions on stage and also switched instruments. Adam played lead guitar and Edge played bass. I found this intriguing and I just couldn't "let it go". As I wondered about this, I vaguely remembered reading something about it. I checked with Wiki and it says that this is their routine.

"During live performances (of "40"), Adam Clayton and The Edge would swap instruments so that Adam played guitar and Edge played bass, and the band members would progressively leave stage, with Bono the first to depart, then Clayton, then Edge, and finally, Larry Mullen, Jr. The crowd would often continue to chant the refrain of "How long...to sing this song?" even after the band had left the stage." -Wikipedia

As I thought about this and reflected on "Intercession", I heard the voice again (or maybe I should say I saw a vision). What I was seeing on video was in some ways similar to what I had witnessed in my friends as they reached out of their struggles to lift up someone else. Had I posted a video illustrating what I had been experiencing without knowing it? (I had initially included a different song (Yahweh) with the post. I switched it to "40" because, well, I felt it gave me the words to pray for my friends. How long?)

Quoting myself from my last post, "I don't know how things like this "work", but it is here that faith happens for me. The fact that people can bear the burdens of others while they are struggling under the weight of their own, engenders a belief in something Bigger and Better, but somehow similar to people, to human beings. It inspires in me, belief in a being whose likeness surrounds me."

Adam and The Edge were playing each others guitar. Adam was "bearing the burden" of The Edge, and vice versa. They were doing the work of each other, with each other. The writer of Galatians said, "Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ (NIV). Theologically, this gets way above my head in a hurry. But in my heart it seems good, and right, and true. I "understand" it in my heart.

The response in me to watching those I love carry the burdens, heartaches, and struggles of others was the encouragement or prompting to have faith in God and a desire to lift them up to Him. It also encouraged me to reach out to them and try to help "bear their burdens". And finally it prompted me to type a blog, post a video, and share this with you. Why? I don't know.

I used to wonder whether these "voices" and "visions" were just me, or coincidence, or something else. Now, at age 41, I am finally beginning to believe, thank God, they are Something Else. I hope this fact somehow helps me (and us, if sharing it with others helps them, or you) to bear our own very real burdens, and also the burdens of others.