I just fell in love with The Innocence Mission - a folksy husband wife duo from Lancaster, very old school. You simply must find them and listen to all their songs! They have a lullaby album with What a Wonderful World, Somewhere over the Rainbow, Edelweiss I used to sing Helen to sleep singing Edelweiss when we were tiny... i was almost in tears listening to it.
Anyways, this is a song of theirs used for a video about addiction. Not sure if that's what the song is about exactly, but I was so moved by it... by the idea of hope that you can change. I've been talking with my girls at youth group and with christine and with my family about the idea of not living for what other people think of you. The idea of freedom that comes with that, like what I had for 5 weeks at Capernwray. Samm said last night, in a way, when we truly meet ourselves, we meet God. If we are in his image, yet always trying to contort ourselves to meet the approval of others, than we twist that image. We do not let it be beautiful and alive.
So this is my addiction, caring what people think. And as cheesy as it is, this video moved me a lot.
1 comment:
I loved the song Kathryn. And Samms words hit spot on. It is so natural to think of "contorting myself to meet others approval" as just a matter of being comfortable with myself, just something I have to work. But to think of it as twisting the image of Himself that God has placed in us...wow!
It is amazing to think of myself without this twisting and wriggling to meet expectations(real or imagined expectations)...what freedom that would be! Can I change? Is it possible to have that freedom? I hope!
I share deeply in the same addiction!(maybe we should start a support group :))
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