I think the finish line's a good place to start.
Take a deep breath.
Take in all that you could want.
The great thing about blogging is that occassionally I get to big up my favourite bands. The above lyrics come from the track 'The Finish Line' by Snow Patrol on their recent 'Eyes Open' album. (I'm expecting free records from Polydor for giving that album a free plug). I'm off to see them play in a couple of weeks and very much looking forward to it. I do my homework when I'm going to see a band-listening to the back catalogue and new albums to make sure I'm singing along to the right lyrics. Only because over the years i've suffered from standing next to strangers ruining the gig experience by (usually drunkenly) badly singing the wrong lyrics. Anyway, I came across the lyrical genius recounted above because it struck a personal chord with me and where I'm at these days.
It's an exhilarating yet terrifying thought. That there's a possibility of new start at the end of something.
There's finish lines coming up in a lot of areas in my life. But I'm not going to let those finish lines defeat me.
Instead, I'm going to take a deep breath...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Hey there Dorothea, thanks for stopping by again...and you're now in charge of this blog...(just joking!)
Seriously, good point, although it's such an inspired comment I wish it could have been mine!
But you're absolutely right. I think the 'Patrol are grabbing hold of an idea we Christian types have heard before.
However, that doesn't mean either you, me, the churches we attend or the guys from Snow Patrol have quite grasped that life can come out of death. In fact, we don't like having to deal with anything dying, whether that is physical death, or the inconvenience that comes from us having to die to ourselves.
We focus on the pain we can see and not on what life can come out of the situations we face.
Dying to ourselves does seem like a finish line but as you say, it's the place that life can begin.
Post a Comment