Skinny Love (Das Kapital Rerub)- Bon Iver

March 24-26, 2011

I didn't get a chance to post last night because I am currently in Nashville, Tn. I love this place with my whole heart, and I love the girl who resides here exponentially more! Famous Amos, Amo, or just good ole Amy Lynn. She's one of my best friends and I am so glad that I only live five hours from her, as opposed to the dreadful ten I was last semester. It's been a journey, but I am so thankful that she's in my life, in a big way. Gah! She has no idea how much she means to me. I love you Amo. There are so many things that I am grateful for, that I see in my best friend. She loves in her own way, and those who get to experience her just being herself are few. I am so glad that God has put her in my life, and I hope that we're together for a long time. She better be thinking long term, I've got just the spot for her in my weddin party.

I love you so much Amy Ergle, thank you for letting me be your friend and sleep on your couch. 

Skinny Love (re-re-remix)

This is the remix of Bon Iver's "Skinny Love." I really really like the original, but this one really grows on you after a while. I wasn't sure how I felt about it the first couple times I heard it, but after about my tenth listen, I can't get the beat out of my head. Bum..chh..bum bum...ch. I heard this on Morgan Cogswell's mixtapes, and immediately wanted more and more Bon Iver. Unfortunately for me, I don't have the cash flow for acquiring such things. 

Anywho...the lyrics. The song is off an album that is written for a specific person. (oh to have an album written about me, that may be a scary thing) But there are a couple verses that I really like. 

I was talking with someone about this song and I told them that these lyrics didn't make much sense to me, and he replied with "well they mean something to Bon Iver." I think that's one of the most inadvertently enlightened things I have ever heard. Why? So many times we write off what people say when we don't understand. Just because we have no clue what they mean by what they say, doesn't mean that it isn't important to them or worth listening to. And on that note, how many important things have we let go of or not heard because we were too wrapped up to understand.

The most profound things can come from the most random of places, we just have to be listening closely enough to see their merit.

Psalms 14-16

I was in Nashville this weekend so I didn't really get the chance to write, so I am playing catch up on three Psalms. I am not sure how this is going to go down, but let's see what He does.

14

Psalm 14 is pretty ballsy of David, if I do say so myself. He is attacking the people (believers) around him, and he's not holding back. He's saying that they are trying to be their own gods, the makers of their own destiny. I've said it before, but when i plan my life away, where is there room for God to be Lord of my life...There isn't. But as bleak as David makes it look for those who are not following God's words or even acknowledging that He is speaking to them, He tells those of faith that God's got everything under control. "Is there anyone to save Israel?"

"Yes. God is around, God turns life around.

Turned-around Jacob skips rope.

Turned-around Israel sings laughter." (Psalm 14: 7 The MSG)

Fifteen

David seems to like the party analogy, because he uses it again here. He is asking how to get invited to God's sweet shindig, I don't know who wouldn't want to be invited to that. The next few verses go on to outline what a life lived for God should look like.

 "Walk straight,
      act right,
         tell the truth. Don't hurt your friend,
      don't blame your neighbor;
         despise the despicable. Keep your word even when it costs you,
      make an honest living,
         never take a bribe."

These are all pretty simple things to do, but I do want to reiterate that a life lived like this is one of proof. Proof that I am loved by an amazing savior. We mess up, He knows that, but He calls us to be better than this world. He calls us to be His, and with His help we are. Loved until the ends of time.

Diez y seis

Psalm fifteen was a good segue into Psalm sixteen. David just talked about what a life lived with Him should look like, and goes on to sing about the greatness of the God that loves him.

He is basking in awe of God and what He has done and what He means in his own life. "Lord, you alone are my inheritance, my cup of blessing." Have ever just sat back and been in complete and utter awe of God? Why, yes. Do I do it enough...probably not. If I did, I would smile more and be bolder. Looking at God with eyes that see Him as limitless, really changes how you see day-to-day life. 

Putting Him in a box not only makes Him smaller, but you more unhappy. And living the opposite...well that would just look amazing, full of opportunity, and allows you to see the littlest glimpse of how intense He is.

"I will bless the Lord who guides me;

      even at night my heart instructs me.
 I know the Lord is always with me.

      I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me.

No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice.
      My body rests in safety.
 ¹⁰ For you will not leave my soul among the dead
      or allow your holy one to rot in the grave.
 ¹¹ You will show me the way of life,
      granting me the joy of your presence

      and the pleasures of living with you forever" (Psalm 16: 7-11 NLT)

I'm going to Heaven!

Skinny Love-Rerub