"Broadway is dark tonight.... " (-Goo Goo Dolls)
drama doesn't have to exist. but it does. i guess it's hard sometimes to take peoples words for what they are. it's funny how sometimes a good thing can be flipped into something it's not, misguided thoughts or even good intentioned.
'For where Love reigns, disturbing Jealousy
Doth call himself Affection's sentinel;
Gives false alarms, suggesteth mutiny,
And in a peaceful hour doth cry 'Kill, kill!'
(Venus and Adonis) - William Shakespeare
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know,
His house is in the village though.
He will not see me stopping here,
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer,
To stop without a farmhouse near,
Between the woods and frozen lake,
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake,
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep,
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
(Robert Frost)
Favourite poem... reminds me about life and the journey it is. Sometimes not knowing where i am going to be going and stopping at a place where there's some peace, but knowing it's not where ur to be going... and how there's miles to go before it's time to sleep...
Favourite Beatles Song...
heard it today, i like the song... so i thought i'd post it up..
I'm looking through you, where did you go
I thought I knew you, what did I know
You don't look different, but you have changed
I'm looking through you, you're not the same
Your lips are moving, I cannot hear
Your voice is soothing, but the words aren't clear
You don't sound different, I've learned the game.
I'm looking through you, you're not the same
Why, tell me why, did you not treat me right?
Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight
You're thinking of me, the same old way
You were above me, but not today
The only difference is you're down there
I'm looking through you, and you're nowhere
Why, tell me why, did you not treat me right?
Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight
I'm looking through you, where did you go
I thought I knew you, what did I know
You don't look different, but you have changed
I'm looking through you, you're not the same
(I'm Looking Through You - Beatles)
T'shuva - (Hebrew word) 'To Return'
I had a conversation over this past month with someone about finding out who they are and where they fit in the universe and i don't know if i really was able to express to them that just as they are is fine. Struggling to find out who they are and what they can achieve... and i couldn't find the words to say what i believe that Rob Bell put into words "who we are", really is. So i typed out the part....
an exerpt from 'Velvet Elvis' by Rob Bell
'"God makes us in his image. We reflect the beauty and creativity and wonder of the God who made us. And Jesus calls us to our true selves. The pure, whole people God originally intended us to be, before we veered off course.
Somewhere in you is the you whom you were made to be.
We need you to be you.
We don't need a second anybody. We need the first you.
The problem is that the image of God is deeply scarred in each of us, and we lose trust in God's version of our story. It seems too good to be true. And so we go searching for identity. We achieve and we push and we perfom and we shop and we work out and we accomplish great things, longing to repari the image. Longing to find an identity that feels right.
Longing to be comfortable in our own skin.
But the thing we are searching for is not somewhere else. It is right here. And we can only find it when we give up the search, when we surrender, when we trust. Trust that God is already putting us back together.
Trust that though dying to the old, the new can give birth.
Trust that Jesus can repair the scarred and broken image.
It is trusting that I am loved. That I always have been. That I will always will be. I don't have to do anything. I don't have to prove anything or achieve anything or accomplish one more thing. That exactly as I am, I am totally accepted, forgiven, and there is nothing I could ever do to lose this acceptance ( Romans 8:37-38, The Bible).
God knew exactly what he was doing when he made you. There are no accidents. We need you to embrace your true identity, who you are in Christ, letting this new awareness transform your life.
That is what Jesus has in mind.
That is what brings heaven to earth."
Delia and Rachel
