Happy St. Patty's Day! I feel like I have just been running off steam for the past couple days. A lot of that has to do with the fact that I haven't gotten too much sleep and that I have literally walked the metaphorical pants off Boone. I must have walked close to five miles yesterday and about three today, and all of that is on top of the exercise I have been doing. I'm pooped, and ready for Friday. To be completely honest, I am making myself write the entry for today out of obligation and guilt. Guilt that if I didn't do it today, I wouldn't have really spent any time in the Word. So, I hope that He and I still have a productive time. I need to focus.
A big volcano: Vesuvius
I have been kind of obsessed with this song for about two months, it already has thirty-eight iTunes plays, and that doesn't count the near five hundred CD plays it's had. Other than having an interesting name, Sufjuan (pronounced Su-fee-yawn) has an interesting style. It uses a lot of fabricated sounds, those being the ones that don't come from traditional instruments (look at me making up musical terms, and convincing myself the are true...I am so tried).
I have been staring at the lyrics for about twenty minutes, reading about what people think he actually says, and perusing the potential meanings of the song. Some say the actual volcano and some say it's about much, much more. It's about the "Fire of Fire." Fire, back in the day was one of the most powerful things and God is referred to as the Lord of Lords, so the fact that there might be a little more to the song that ash and lava isn't that silly. Especially since Sufjan is a fan of the Big Man. Even with the lyrics hashed out, it doesn't make a lot of sense. But there is a part that I can relate to.
There is a part in the song where he talks to himself in the third person, "Sufjuan follow the path...Sufjan follow your heart." There are two things that can be going on here. One is that he may be self motivating or two, it could be someone else talking to him. In one of the interpretations they think that Sufjan is struggling with "walking the straight and narrow." Living his life out as a Christian isn't going as smoothly as he'd hoped, and he's at a crossroads. To follow what he knows is right, or to follow what is easy. The reference of his name in the third person, could be the Holy Spirit motivating him to keep going. "You got it kid!" I think that may be it, because the lyrics go:
"In your breast
I carry the form
The heart of the Earth
And the weapons of warmth"
And that's where He is, in my h-e-a-r-t and that's who keeps me going. Maybe this song has been with me for a while so I can substitute Annie-Grace in for Sufjan.
"Vesuvius
Fire of Fire
Fall on me now
As I favor the Ghost"
Seven
I've decided against changing it. This is where I was last night. Here is a part that I did read and wanted to leave here:
"I will give to the Lord the thanks due to His rightness and justice, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High"
He loves us, even though we deserve the exact opposite. It's a free gift. Take advantage of it. Build a relationship with it. Stake your life on it.
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