These Things Take Time by Sanctus Real
I wanna know why pain makes me stronger
I wanna know why good men die
Why am I so afraid of the dark ?
But I stray from the light
I wanna know why you gave me eyes
When faith is how I see
And tell me
Is it easier to doubt
Or harder to believe
Oh there’s so many questions stirring in me
And I wonder why
Sometimes the truth ain’t easy to find
I wanna know all the answers
But I’m learning that
These things take time
Yeah, these things take time
How could success make us feel like failures?
And the harder we fall the harder we try
The more I have the more I need
Just to feel like I’m getting by
Oh, there’s so many questions and one short life
And I wonder why
Sometimes the truth ain’t easy to find
I wanna know all the answers
But I’m learning that
These things take time
Yeah, these things take time
And we spend so much time
Chasing our tails, hoping to find
Every last answer
To everything in life
So many questions
Not enough time
But I’m still
Wondering why
Sometimes the truth ain’t easy to find
I wanna know all the answers
But I’m learning that
These things take time
Yeah, these things take time
Hey!
We all wanna understand why
Evil lives and good men die
On the way to Heaven the truth unwinds
These things take time
These things take time
Yeah, these things take time
*Right now there are many things that I would like to know, and I need to have faith that everything will work out. It may not be what I had planned but I need to be open to what God has planned for me. Waiting and wondering. ah
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
The things that get you
You know those times where you aren't in the mood. When you don't want to think or feel. When you feel overwhelmed, broken, but yet you feel that something is going to happen. My mind has been on a whirl wind this past week.
One of the things that I have been thinking about is religion. I'm in COR 102 and the class is about Christian thought and life. I had to write a paper last week about pluralism vs. exclusivism and it was very hard, I still don't know what I think about how I should think about salvation.
I had to lead a discussion for a class on ecofeminism. How often do we think about women and nature being connected? It's alot of bologna but yet we can learn from it. If you would like to talk about ecofeminism I would love to tell you about it sometime. : )
Also, I went to a bioethics conference this weekend. I wasn't planning on going, but I found myself at a majority of the talks. What scares me is that something can sound first sound good but then when you let it soak in it's awful. Learning about eugenics, technology and hearing cases about different ethic situations just made my mind spin. As a Christian I need to be informed about what's out there so I know where I stand. I need to make sure I know both sides before coming to a conclusion. This world is a scary place....
I was studying for my cor test and I was listening to Rich Mullins. One of his songs is called creed and it is based on the Apostles creed so as I was listening to it I googled it to see if there was a music video and I found the following instead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQnFU5JvuWY&a=K9Klbf7Zh1Q&playnext_from=ML
If you get a chance watch it. : )
One of the things that I have been thinking about is religion. I'm in COR 102 and the class is about Christian thought and life. I had to write a paper last week about pluralism vs. exclusivism and it was very hard, I still don't know what I think about how I should think about salvation.
I had to lead a discussion for a class on ecofeminism. How often do we think about women and nature being connected? It's alot of bologna but yet we can learn from it. If you would like to talk about ecofeminism I would love to tell you about it sometime. : )
Also, I went to a bioethics conference this weekend. I wasn't planning on going, but I found myself at a majority of the talks. What scares me is that something can sound first sound good but then when you let it soak in it's awful. Learning about eugenics, technology and hearing cases about different ethic situations just made my mind spin. As a Christian I need to be informed about what's out there so I know where I stand. I need to make sure I know both sides before coming to a conclusion. This world is a scary place....
I was studying for my cor test and I was listening to Rich Mullins. One of his songs is called creed and it is based on the Apostles creed so as I was listening to it I googled it to see if there was a music video and I found the following instead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQnFU5JvuWY&a=K9Klbf7Zh1Q&playnext_from=ML
If you get a chance watch it. : )
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Anyway
I haven't posted anything for a long time, Life has been crazy. These past months have been full of up's and down's and I'm just trying to hang on. Over spring break (last week) I found myself at a Holy Family Shrine and this was on the wall. I wanted to share it.
Anyway By Kent Keith
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spent years building, someone could destroy overnight.
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, others will often be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and “them” anyway.
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spent years building, someone could destroy overnight.
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, others will often be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and “them” anyway.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Broken Pieces
Picking up the broken pieces, slowly and carefully. It's painful to know that you broke something and you want to fix what you broke, but you can't. It's not possible. You can't pick up glass that you broke and have it be what it once was.
What you have to do is carefully gather the pieces, big and small, and put them in a place so that they can be recycled.
God can recycle our broken pieces. He can melt down what we broke and make it into something new and beautiful.
I am a DO person, and I want to take the pieces and put them back togethermyself, but as my roommates have remeinded me, I can't. This is not a fun puzzle where things are made to fit together. This is not something to be conquered. This is something that I need to give to the Great Recycler and trust that He can make what I have broke into something new and beautiful.
"It's out of my hands
It's out of my reach
It's over my head
And it's out of my league
There's too many things
That I don't understand
So it's into your will
And it's out of my hands"
What you have to do is carefully gather the pieces, big and small, and put them in a place so that they can be recycled.
God can recycle our broken pieces. He can melt down what we broke and make it into something new and beautiful.
I am a DO person, and I want to take the pieces and put them back togethermyself, but as my roommates have remeinded me, I can't. This is not a fun puzzle where things are made to fit together. This is not something to be conquered. This is something that I need to give to the Great Recycler and trust that He can make what I have broke into something new and beautiful.
"It's out of my hands
It's out of my reach
It's over my head
And it's out of my league
There's too many things
That I don't understand
So it's into your will
And it's out of my hands"
-Matthew West
Sunday, February 14, 2010
hmmmm.....
“After all this has passed, I will remain, after I've cried my last, there'll be beauty from pain. Though it won’t be today, someday I’ll hope again And they’ll be beauty from pain there will be beauty from pain.“ -Superchick
Tears…influenced by frustration, anger, bitterness, disappointment, tried to fight them, but lost over and over again. Words spoken in anger, anger that had been build up over time. Bitterness that has been built up over time that know right where to hurt the person who has hurt you.
I can’t forgive. Because if I forgive them, I need to wish well upon the person I need to forgive. If I wish well upon that person, it gives them grounds to hurt me again. If I don’t forgive them, but keep distance from them, then I will be safe from hurt.
But the hurt they caused me will still be with me.
Forgiveness......
"There will be beauty from pain"
Tears…influenced by frustration, anger, bitterness, disappointment, tried to fight them, but lost over and over again. Words spoken in anger, anger that had been build up over time. Bitterness that has been built up over time that know right where to hurt the person who has hurt you.
I can’t forgive. Because if I forgive them, I need to wish well upon the person I need to forgive. If I wish well upon that person, it gives them grounds to hurt me again. If I don’t forgive them, but keep distance from them, then I will be safe from hurt.
But the hurt they caused me will still be with me.
Forgiveness......
"There will be beauty from pain"
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Once upon a time.....
Once upon a time (that may or may not of been very long ago), I was very anti-dating. This was something I wrote during that time. Since then, I have gotten a little better, but I still have my concerns and doubts about the whole idea and thought process. Out of all the relationships I know of (which are many) there are 2 that I admire. There are too many that make me feel uncomfortable. When I wrote this I think I was a little extreme in my thinking but some of my points are true and there are things that we should watch out for and think about.
Mt 5:28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart
That’s just looking at…What do you think he would say about claiming someone who might someday be another man’s wife?
What is adultery?
Adultery: voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse
1Corinthians 10:14 Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.
What is idolatry?
Idolatry:
1. The religious worship of idols. 2. Excessive or blind adoration, reverence, devotion, ect. Another said… excessive admiration or love shown for somebody or something.
Disloyalty:
1. Being Disloyal, a lack of loyalty to a person, vow, organization, or state
2. a disloyal or unfaithful act
Unfaithful:
1. adulterous, engaging in sexual relations with somebody other than a spouse or partner
2. Untrue to commitments, untrue to commitments, duties, beliefs, or ideals
3. Not like original, not true to the original
Lust:
1. Sexual desire, the strong physical desire to have sex with somebody, usually without associated feelings of love or affection
2. Eagerness, great eagerness or enthusiasm for something
Synonyms are: yearn, desire, long for, hunger for, envy, ect.
Dating: the activity of going out regularly with somebody as a social or romantic partner.
Date: a romantic engagement with somebody
Romantic:
1. Involving sexual love, involving or characteristic of a love affair or sexual love, especially when the relationship is idealized or exciting and intense
2. Suitable for love, characterized by or suitable for lovemaking or the expression of tender emotion
Ephesians 4:19 Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.
1Peter 4:3 For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do-- living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.
The world we live in says that lust is good, and everyone is doing it. The pressure is out there that if you don’t have a boy/girl friend you are not somebody. The Bible paints this beautiful picture of marriage and how it should be like Christ and the church. We make a mockery of the symbolism by dating and having the vow of “till death do us part…or I find someone better.” “I’m getting to know someone better to see if they’re the ‘right’ one for me” little do you know that they are showing you only what they want you to see so you really aren’t seeing the real them, or maybe you are just studying your human anatomy “We’re just going to live together to see if it would work out if we got married”. How blind and perverse we are becoming. The stories we tell ourselves to make it ok don’t really line up sometimes. What are we showing the rest of the world, when we are acting just like them? If we hurt friends over a relationship it shows you how they treat the people they are closest to, next time it might be you they hurt. How is that showing Jesus to the world? Why does it have to be this way?
Proverbs 5:15-18
Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well. Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares? Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers. May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
This is the passage that got me thinking. Especially verse 17 the part that says “never to be shared with strangers”. What gets shared that we will never get back when we invest time and emotion in someone? Or will we ever know what has been lost?
Mt 5:28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart
That’s just looking at…What do you think he would say about claiming someone who might someday be another man’s wife?
What is adultery?
Adultery: voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse
1Corinthians 10:14 Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.
What is idolatry?
Idolatry:
1. The religious worship of idols. 2. Excessive or blind adoration, reverence, devotion, ect. Another said… excessive admiration or love shown for somebody or something.
Disloyalty:
1. Being Disloyal, a lack of loyalty to a person, vow, organization, or state
2. a disloyal or unfaithful act
Unfaithful:
1. adulterous, engaging in sexual relations with somebody other than a spouse or partner
2. Untrue to commitments, untrue to commitments, duties, beliefs, or ideals
3. Not like original, not true to the original
Lust:
1. Sexual desire, the strong physical desire to have sex with somebody, usually without associated feelings of love or affection
2. Eagerness, great eagerness or enthusiasm for something
Synonyms are: yearn, desire, long for, hunger for, envy, ect.
Dating: the activity of going out regularly with somebody as a social or romantic partner.
Date: a romantic engagement with somebody
Romantic:
1. Involving sexual love, involving or characteristic of a love affair or sexual love, especially when the relationship is idealized or exciting and intense
2. Suitable for love, characterized by or suitable for lovemaking or the expression of tender emotion
Ephesians 4:19 Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.
1Peter 4:3 For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do-- living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.
The world we live in says that lust is good, and everyone is doing it. The pressure is out there that if you don’t have a boy/girl friend you are not somebody. The Bible paints this beautiful picture of marriage and how it should be like Christ and the church. We make a mockery of the symbolism by dating and having the vow of “till death do us part…or I find someone better.” “I’m getting to know someone better to see if they’re the ‘right’ one for me” little do you know that they are showing you only what they want you to see so you really aren’t seeing the real them, or maybe you are just studying your human anatomy “We’re just going to live together to see if it would work out if we got married”. How blind and perverse we are becoming. The stories we tell ourselves to make it ok don’t really line up sometimes. What are we showing the rest of the world, when we are acting just like them? If we hurt friends over a relationship it shows you how they treat the people they are closest to, next time it might be you they hurt. How is that showing Jesus to the world? Why does it have to be this way?
Proverbs 5:15-18
Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well. Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares? Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers. May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
This is the passage that got me thinking. Especially verse 17 the part that says “never to be shared with strangers”. What gets shared that we will never get back when we invest time and emotion in someone? Or will we ever know what has been lost?
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Silly thoughts
So, over the weekend I spend some time in a tree stand and when I am in a tree stand I have to sit still and be quiet and when I do that I have lots of time to think.
Sometimes I like to try to connect things and this is my latest one.
Dating can be connected to two of my favorite past times-fishing and hunting.
Fishing in the sense that people can go out and "catch" someone. They also can throw someone back if they aren't "good" enough in hopes that the next one will be better. It can be serious but it's usually pretty easy going.
Now hunting is more intense. You have to know what you want before hand and you have to wait patiently. It's more of a commitment to go hunting than fishing. You can always get another tag, but you hope that you only need one. In hunting what you do really counts and sometimes you only get one shot. Yes you can settle for less and get something smaller, but if you wait, someday that "big buck" will come and you can get him. : )
and this is how my silly mind works when I have spent too much time in a tree stand. : )
Sometimes I like to try to connect things and this is my latest one.
Dating can be connected to two of my favorite past times-fishing and hunting.
Fishing in the sense that people can go out and "catch" someone. They also can throw someone back if they aren't "good" enough in hopes that the next one will be better. It can be serious but it's usually pretty easy going.
Now hunting is more intense. You have to know what you want before hand and you have to wait patiently. It's more of a commitment to go hunting than fishing. You can always get another tag, but you hope that you only need one. In hunting what you do really counts and sometimes you only get one shot. Yes you can settle for less and get something smaller, but if you wait, someday that "big buck" will come and you can get him. : )
and this is how my silly mind works when I have spent too much time in a tree stand. : )
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