Warning: Detour Ahead...
...and I'll be taking some time from my usual pursuits to address a few questions regarding my faith. I have no intention of casting my pearls before swine-- as it were --so don't expect much in the way of anything personally precious. This detour is strictly business.
Nothing I post will attempt in any way to change anyone's mind. Those of you who already believe may find edification, and that's all well and good. But those of you who do not believe... well... you're not going to believe anything I say no matter what I post here.
Just setting the table.
Next:
Detour, Part 1 - "Preamble"
Nothing I post will attempt in any way to change anyone's mind. Those of you who already believe may find edification, and that's all well and good. But those of you who do not believe... well... you're not going to believe anything I say no matter what I post here.
Just setting the table.
Next:
Detour, Part 1 - "Preamble"
from the mind of... Eric | 1:26 AM
2 Comments:
I know the artists who performed this song have alwats been controversial, but I listened to it today and was actually encouraged by it.
Wading through the manure one tends to encounter on-line, it's good to have encouragement--edification, if you will--no matter where it comes from.
Black Sabbath recorded this back in the early seventies. Ozzie sang it--Iommi wrote it!
"After Forever"
Have you ever thought about your soul - can it be saved?
Or perhaps you think that when you're dead you just stay in your grave
Is God just a thought within your head or is he a part of you?
Is Christ just a name that you read in a book when you were in school?
When you think about death do you lose your breath or do you keep your cool?
Would you like to see the Pope on the end of a rope - do you think he's a fool?
Well I have seen the truth, yes I've seen the light and I've changed my ways
And I'll be prepared when you're lonely and scared at the end of our days
Could it be you're afraid of what your friends might say
If they knew you believe in God above?
They should realize before they criticize
that God is the only way to love
Is your mind so small that you have to fall
In with the pack wherever they run
Will you still sneer when death is near
And say they may as well worship the sun?
I think it was true it was people like you that crucified Christ
I think it is sad the opinion you had was the only one voiced
Will you be so sure when your day is near, say you don't believe?
You had the chance but you turned it down, now you can't retrieve
Perhaps you'll think before you say that God is dead and gone
Open your eyes, just realize that he's the one
The only one who can save you now from all this sin and hate
Or will you still jeer at all you hear? Yes! I think it's too late.
Denny--
Try this one on for size. From Kansas'
"The Wall"
I'm woven in a fantasy
I can't believe the things I see
The path that I have chosen now
Has led me to a wall
And with each passing day
I feel a little more like something dear was lost
It rises now before me
A dark and silent barrier between
All I am
And all that I would ever want to be
It's just a travesty
Towering
Marking off the boundaries my spirit
Would erase
To pass beyond is what I seek
I fear that I may be too weak
And those of you who've seen it through
To glimpse the other side
The promise land is waiting
Like a maiden that is soon to be a bride
The moment is a masterpeice
The weight of indecision's in the air
Standing there
The symbol and the sum of all that's me
It's just a travesty
Towering
Blocking out the light and blinding me
I want to see
Gold and diamonds cast a spell
It's not for me, I know it well
The riches that I seek
Are waiting on the other side
There's more than I can can measure
In the treasures of the love that I can find
And though it's always been with me
I must tear down the wall and let it be
All I am
And all that I was ever meant to be
In harmony
Shining through
And smiling back at all who wait to cross
There is no loss...
Not quite the same context as the one you've offered, but the lines...
"Gold and diamonds cast a spell
It's not for me, I know it well
The riches that I seek
Are waiting on the other side"
...sum up my own journey
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