I don't want to do a lot of posts about songs and how they relate to my life, but you don't often come across a song that seems like it was written after someone read the story of your life.
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The first verse is almost an exact description of my childhood. I really 'played pretend between the trees' and 'fed my house guests bark and leaves' with my cousins all the time when we were growing up. One cousin in particular became my best friend. We were both home-schooled and in the same grade, so for the first ten years of my life we had everything in common - and we were inseparable when we were together. She died of leukemia during my seventh grade year.
So it's been almost seven years... I was told that it would eventually just feel like she moved away. But you tend to miss people less and less if you know that only distance separates you. It's not the same with death - you miss them in a greater way with each passing milestone of life.
I'm in the second verse of the song now, asking God who I'm supposed to be, like everyone should when they're my age. I'm dreaming big... what could God do with my life? I can't help feeling it will be grand. And at the end of my life, I'll be able to say I lived it full and well.
This song is written from a trusting perspective, trusting that what happens in your life and the dreams that you have are connected in a deep and divine way. In my life, it's trusting that Jesus Christ builds the church the way He wants it, trusting that no person can keep me out of God's will, and trusting gladly that God knows better than I do what I need.
7 years ago
1 comments:
First of All, you have the coolest bloody blog I've ever seen. It's not all standard and crap!! Way to bloody be!!!
Jesus does build the church the way he wants it. Don't ever forget that, because we all tend to have our own ideas about what id should look like and how it should function, and that's when things begin to SUCK. Great post!
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