I woke up Tuesday morning with Waterdeep's Good, Good End on my mind... or in my heart... or near whatever part of you brings forth a song you haven't heard in awhile.
Hope has been a theme of late. No conversations have named it specifically, but I see it everywhere. Hope in the midst of endeavors. Hope in brokenness. Hope in trial. There is something deeply good and deeply human about hope. As we see possibilities despite overwhelming impossibilities, we take a better grasp of Life within. Hope somehow propels us to live more deeply and fully and intentionally than circumstances might typically lend.
And just as evident has been the presence of hopelessness. Hopelessness that snuffs out the candle when the flame has barely been lit. Hopelessness which covers a situation like a thick fog, cutting off all clarity and illumination. Just as hope is an expression of humanity, so appears to be hopelessness (as much as I hate to accept this). Hopelessness draws us to need and to receive; it opens us in a raw way to others and to God.
I don't really know how this works, but it seems like being human is both deep belief in self, others and the future, and deep need in others and the Divine. Life is the dance between those two realities.
I should mention... I usually like to post a link to a song when I reference it, but I couldn't find Good, Good End anywhere.
Youtube.com...
"Waterdeep" nope.
"Waterdeep, Good, Good End" nope.
"Waterdeep, End" nope.
"Waterdeep, Good" nope.
"Waterdeep, Good, Good" nope.
"Waterdeep, Heart Attack Time Machine" nope.
It got so bad that I stooped to a new low and went to Godtube.com... surely the Christians will have posted a video. Nah. The one time I rely on mainstream evangelical christianity for pop culture... failed!
BUT... I did see this gem of an advertisement on the site..."Meet they Neighbor"
0 comments:
Post a Comment