Weightless

City and Colour - Weightless

[Official Video]
https://youtu.be/KFIEjVotxxY

[Lyrics]
"Weightless"

Come close,
Lay next to me

Come close,
Lay next to me
I need to tell you something important

Stay close,
Lay next to me
I need to feel important

Because it's your eyes that I don't believe
And my heart, you will, you will mislead
Do you know the consequence that comes with having such confidence?

Holding all the weight in my life
Then you turn and walk away from me

So what is this now, you ask of me?
What's makes your pain such an urgency?
Now I want out, so plain to see
Once again my dear, a brand new tragedy

Holding all the weight in my life
Then you turn and walk away from me
Holding all the weight in my life
Then you turn and walk away from me

Bleeding all the strength from my life
Then you turn and run away from me
Yeah bleeding all the strength from my life
Then you turn and run away from me

I'm not young.
I'm not good looking.
I'm not in great shape.
I'm not cool.
Im not interesting.
I'm not worried about any of it.

My Prayer For You

What I believe I believe is right and I would not ask or expect that you should believe what I believe simply because I believe it.
You must arrive at your own conclusions based on your own convictions, for a faith based on the conviction of others is a hollow faith indeed.
That we are allowed to petition the Almighty is a wonderous mystery and miraculous in itself.
If I were to petition on the behalf of others my petition would simply be this:
That of all the people you meet in your life I might be the worst Christian you have ever known, and in spite of that, of all the people I will have known in my life you might become the best Christian that I have ever known.
Solo Cristo Salva
d (-_-)b

Stup-Hole

I always say when some people act in a particular manner (asshole, or stupid, but I honestly have to think asshole is just the manifestation of the resulting frustration caused by that initial stupidity) anyway... it really helps in dealing with those sorts of folks to consider that they aren't acting at all, it really is exactly who they are.

Wha wha wha...

When Sonny first met Cher he asked if she was free to go out some time.

She replied by saying," I don't know about free, but I am pro Bono."

Paige Turner

The first part is spent clinging tightly for safety and the next part is spent pushing away into danger.

From the person you knew everything about to the person you know nothing about.

It's a difficult transition, I imagine more for the parent than the child.

This is growing up I suppose.

To be reminded of the age I am currently isn't nearly the problem that being reminded of the age I am no longer is.
d(-_-)b

The Work Ethic of Evil

That what you strive for does not come easily is no indication that what you strive for is by any means good.

Being evil does not equate to being lazy, working hard does not equate to being good.

d (-_-)b

Ball of Confusion

The reality is somewhere along the line someone's going to have their feelings hurt and someday that someone is going to be you.

It's not personal.

The world barely stops to notice the suffering of the masses.

It certainly doesn't stop for hurt feelings of individuals.

The earth keeps turning... regardless of what happens on its surface.

It's not personal.

From the Mouths of Babes

The sage wisdom of strangers is most often just the unheard refrain of the parent. d (-_-) b

Everybody Lean to the Right

I'm almost always right which is why I don't care if anyone believes me.

The Oak Firmly Planted and the Wise Acorn

Tonight as I was moving some stuff around in the carport a piece of nice finished oak trim fell over and split.

Bummer...

Thinking I was being at least cool if not optimistic, I said, "Well that's no good anymore."

Sofia (7) without hesitation replied, "No it's still good."

"How do you figure?"

"We can still use it for fire wood."

Perspective, it's everything.

She was right.

In fact, I'll probably enjoy that piece of wood as a source of fire far more than some display of my poor carpentry skills that hangs around forever and I'll wish I had actually burned anyway.

I'm glad that wood broke!

Codependence Day

The trick?

 
Make it look easy.
Always.

Means

Memories

It has long been proven that the olfactory (sense of smell) is the most sensitive of all the sense we possess in triggering memory recall.

For some people certaim smells can trigger strong and sometimes violent unexplainable reactions.

These people are often labeled scentamental.

Is God on our side?

The fundamental problem is the seemingly inseparable terms "Republican" and "Christian".
Two terms so different in nature and purpose, it's a disgrace that they have become synonymous each to the other.

It presents so many needless and unrelated obstacles in bearing witness to the gospel that most often serve only to convolute and undermine the fundamental presentation of Christ's work.

How sad that anyone should have to say, "Yes I'm a Christian," and then have to follow it with the clarification ,"but I'm not one of those Christians."

Division right out of the gate.
So sad.
d (-_-) b

Jesus Only Speaks Well of One

Between pole dancers and poll dancers, there's a lot of money hidden in debasement.

Bread in my Jar

Truth is always the best policy, honesty not always so much.

Either may include or exclude the other, but by their nature they are two very different things.

That Time Is Now

At a certain point, sheer exhaustion can make it difficult to discerene the tradesman from the amature.

Dig Measuring Contest

Not many work with as much fervent tenacity as the diggers of holes. Often times hole diggers are an unstoppable force of blind ambition and become so caught up in their quest they fail to recognize that they are no longer moving up, but digging further and further down...

... and generally with no real thought for how they'll get out, or that they'll even need to.

Darbage

An investment is a calculated placement of resources with the expectation of at least a certain amount of fair return.

The placement of resources with a return based on odds is also an investment. Those returns are less certain.

However the placement of resources based on sheer luck is gambling and while those returns are rare, they do still occur.

For example, casino owners invest, while their patrons gamble, but the inevitably the house always wins.

When you have reached the point where you have lost any expectation at all of a return  on your resources and you still keep putting in, at that point you're just throwing it away.

Scott, Steve - This Sad Music

Scott, Steve - This Sad Music:
http://youtu.be/lRcCJVjSl28

This Sad Music

The whales are dying now,
hurling themselves upon the beaches
black dice reckoned under the sun's watchful gaze

There's sweat on the preacher's brow
as he talks about damnation.
The whales are in love with no one
They wanted to die without explanation

He mops his brow and quotes Malcolm Muggeridge
on - quote -
"the collapse of western civilization"
- end quote -
and the book he waves in the air
is as black as whaleskin

He urges people to "make their decision"
and the whales have made their decision

An awful silence surrounds them
Like a ruined castle they lie
still, passive, beyond explanations

Beads of sweat on the preacher's brow
like small clear animals clinging to a rock face
or like tiny transparent whales
flinging themselves from the boiling seas of his eyes
into a slow, certain dying

The sad music in their brains, a piper's lament
from that old castle in the mist-thickened night

"FIFTEEN THOUSAND CINEMAS ACROSS THIS LAND,
DEPICTING EVERY SEXUAL ACT KNOWN TO
THE HUMAN IMAGINATION!" shouts the preacher

His voice is a door slamming shut
the sea's noise is a vast intake of breath
a gesture in a room to break the silence
now the whales have broken the silence

They are the color of the preacher's harsh words

The white foam rushes to embrace them
like mother and father
The whales do not want to know, and now

There are people sprawled on the beaches
chained together by "HUMAN IMAGINATION"
All the music has bled out of them,
drained from the ends of their fingers
splashed from the loudspeakers of their wallets

And at the end of the service, people walk forward
Perhaps it is "the collapse of western civilization"
that moves them
or the sad music of their slow, certain dying
that guides their feet

And at the end of this poem
a strange light comes off the bodies of the whales
gathering up the shadows like driftwood
and splashing them against the far walls

you would think the shadows would make
the words there hard to read
However, I find it's at a time like this
I see the writing clearest of all

(c) Steve Scott 1983

Mellow Hello

Friday, April 24, 2015
Failure in the Victory Garden: Mellow Hello

I have always said that Christianity is a religion of paradoxical living. Here it is again.

Having been created and thus finite, we are left to be creatures that perceive truths and realities through the lens of our own experience and understanding. Consequently no experience or truth can be expressed without the basis of our own perceptions. 

Even when we catch glimpses of things far larger than we could ever know from those moments, by design, we try to make sense of them based on what we know in order to understand them.

Again, what other choice do we have?
What choice have we been given?

It is after all how we were created and so the creator must know it, we were after all made in his image.

That said we should step carefully and make every effort not to create God in our image or present Him as such.

Although actually not doing so, by the very nature of how we were designed may be impossible, we need to make the effort to be mindful of this inour presentation of realities based on our limited understanding of them.

Failure to at least be sensitive in that regard can only lead to very limiting misconceptions about God in every aspect and we run the very real risk of a view very different from their actuality as each experience builds on the previous.

We will inevitably come to relate to God as based on our own experience, the creator of the individual, (more specifically us), rather  than taking into consideration God as the creator of all, the collective. Thus we will lend far more credibility to the authority of our own views, and far less to those of others, than may be justified.

In others words we shouldn't believe that we can understand the whole of the puzzle base on our one piece, not that we should stop trying to, since that too is how were created.

It's not so much insulting to God (I would imagine) as much as it can leads us very  astray in our pursuit of knowing Him.

Oh look a butterfly....

Ultimately, I think it's one thing to believe certain things about God, leaving room for that to evolve as we do, especially since it seems unavoidable, but a far different and damaging thing altogether to make claims of unchangeable certainty for and about God, as though we might possibly understand Him now.

I would in fact say that in doing so, in a very real sense, we attempt to make ourselves equal to God, and when we make ourselves equal to God, we make ourselves equal to the devil.

"Did God really say you can't eat of any tree?"... and so it goes.