Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
What You Wanted - OneRepublic
I'll find the places where you hide [I will.]
I'll be the dawn on your worst night
The only thing left that I like [Nothing compares 2U]
Yeah I would
[I believe I promised these things to the Savior before I came to earth and again in baptism. I'm still promising them. I know he did the same thing. It's a Covenant.]
[He's also finding the places where I hide: "It would be several more years before I had been thrashed by adversity enough to drive me to my knees. I had to do things my way for a while in order to figure out the dead end street I was on." ~quote from my blog post, Turning and Reviling Again]
[“I’m sick of time. I don't want it to take any more time! Time, Why You Punish Me? I ask the Lord why he can't just accept me for who I am. His answer is, 'Because that's what you wanted.'” ~quote from blog post, What You Wanted]
I'll put your poison in my veins [It feels like poison sometimes]
They say the best love is insane, yeah [Seriously paradoxical.]
I'll light your fire till my last day [That's what I wanted.]
I'll let your fields burn around me, around me
[...around me...]
Repeat Chorus
Oh, my love is true
Tell me, something I wouldn't do
[“...the submission of one’s will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God’s altar. The many other things we “give,” brothers and sisters, are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us. However, when you and I finally submit ourselves, by letting our individual wills be swallowed up in God’s will, then we are really giving something to Him! It is the only possession which is truly ours to give!” ~Elder Neal A. Maxwell]
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
The Middle - Jimmy Eat World (Lyrics)
Hey
Don't write yourself off yet
It's only in your head you feel left out or looked down on
Just try your best
Try everything you can
And don't you worry what they tell themselves when you're away
It just takes some time
Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride
Everything, everything will be just fine
Everything, everything will be all right
Hey
You know they're all the same
You know you're doing better on your own so don't buy in
Live right now
Just be yourself
It doesn't matter if that's good enough for someone else
It just takes some time
Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride
Everything, everything will be just fine
Everything, everything will be all right
It just takes some time
Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride
Everything, everything will be just fine
Everything, everything will be all right
Hey
Don't write yourself off yet
It's only in your head you feel left out or looked down on
Just do your best
Do everything you can
Don't you worry what their bitter hearts are going to say
It just takes some time
Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride
Everything, everything will be just fine
Everything, everything will be all right
It just takes some time
Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride
Everything, everything will be just fine
Everything, everything will be all right
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Monday, January 30, 2017
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Strangers Like Me - Phil Collins (Disney's Tarzan)
[This is another song that basically sang what was in my heart when I was learning who Jesus Christ was on a level I had never gone to before.]
Whatever you do
I'll do it too
Show me everything
And tell me how
It all means something
And
I can see there is so much to learn
It's all so close
And yet so far
I see myself
As
Oh I just know there's something bigger out there[!]
Chorus
I want to know, can you show me
I want to know about these strangers like me
Tell me more, please show me
Something's familiar
About these strangers like me
Every gesture
Every move that
Makes me feel like never before
Why do I have this growing need to be beside
Oh these emotions I never knew
Of some other world far beyond this place
Beyond the trees, above the clouds
Oh I see before me a new horizon
Repeat Chorus
Come with me now
To see my world
Where there's beauty beyond your dreams
Can you feel the things I feel right now with you
Take my hand
There's a world I need to know
Repeat Chorus
I want to know
Friday, December 23, 2016
Love is the Answer by England Dan & John Ford Coley
Name your price
A ticket to paradise
I can't stay here any more
And i've looked high and low
I've been from shore to shore to shore
If there's a short cut i'd have found it
But there's no easy way around it
LIGHT OF THE WORLD, shine on me
[His] Love is the answer
Shine on us all, set us free
[His] Love is the answer
Who knows why
Someday we all must die
We're all homeless boys and girls [Spiritually when we separate from him or if we have not yet developed a close enough relationship to him, we feel this way.]
And we are never heard [We ARE heard. The question is, are we hearing Him or numbing/scattering ourselves to our ability to sense his presence by reaching for Pseudo forms of Peace?]
It's such a lonely world [Yeah, it really can be.]
People turn their heads and walk on by [Okay, but what do we do? Because we develop our relationship with Jesus Christ, we can be the first ones to reach out to others. Kindness starts with me.]
Tell me, is it worth just another try?
Tell me, are we alive, or just a dying planet? [Planet--Zion Community--Peace on Earth--Sustainable Joy for all who desire it. Is this an impossible goal to achieve?]
What are the chances? [Can we really prepare ourselves to receive our Savior in his Second Coming? Will we be ready for him?]
Ask the man in your heart for the answers
And when you feel afraid, love one another [Learn what it means to love like Christ loves. It's about being obedient to his commandments, both generally and in the specific situations we find ourselves. It's not always about continuously giving hand-outs. Sometimes it's about withholding them (I know that's the case with my own children). When we listen to the Spirit, we are personally directed to know what to do for each child of God we are interacting with.]
When you've lost your way, love one another
When you're all alone, love one another
When you're far from home, love one another
When you're down and out, love one another
All your hope's run out, love one another
When you need a friend, love one another
When you're near the end, love one another
We got to love one another
LIGHT OF THE WORLD, you got to shine
[His] Love will be a means, yeah, yeah
Shine on us all
Know that [His] love can save the day
Just give it one more chance
Lord you just can't let it stop lord [He won't let it stop but we need to be willing to keep his commandments in order to receive this love, in order to pass on this love. It's a covenant relationship because there is an overall purpose to enable us to grow, to become more like him. It's not just about what we can receive. Peace is good. But it's also about what we become--the development of our ability to sacrifice. When we combine receiving with the appropriate level of sacrificing, we experience Joy!]
[His] Love is the answer
Got to be free to let love into your life [The truth will make us free. Loving in truth is the way Christ loves. It's not about Willy-Nilly frenzy loving. There is an order to all things. When we learn this order from the Lord and change our hearts, thoughts, words, and actions to align with it, we are set free.]
Let it shine
Friday, December 16, 2016
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