Because this gift came with two free lines (27 characters each) of engraving a huge dilemma was created. What WORDS!
I wrestled for hours, days and nights only to realize the following: I'm not going to find what I'm looking for!
It was in that moment of clarity I remembered, for a long time there was a U2 song that had always touched something in me. When the song came out ('87), I was entrenched in the "charismatic Christian movement" so I let my doctrine get in the way of hearing what they were trying to say. Although, the song flew in the face of what I was being taught at the time, it somehow managed to resonated in that part of me where all my questions are and I could never let it go. Now that I am older, and wiser and not so much in the movement, I see genius in every line:
I have climbed highest mountain
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you
I have run. I have crawled.
I have scaled these city walls, these city walls
Only to be with you
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing in her fingertips
It burned like fire
This burning desire
I have spoke with the tongue of angels
I have held the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
I believe in the kingdom come
Then all the colors will bleed into one
Bleed into one
Well yes I'm still running
You broke the bonds and you
Loosed the chains
Carried the cross
Of my shame
Of my shame
You know I believed it
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
In conclusion, I would like to say that it reminds me of that scripture (that I love) in Philippians 3:12:
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
Oh, so from U2 I engraved the following line on my iPod:
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for....
Thank you Raymond and Lori. I was blessed the day you got married (August 22, 1981), even though I wasn't invited to the wedding!
Thank you Raymond and Lori. I was blessed the day you got married (August 22, 1981), even though I wasn't invited to the wedding!
1 comment:
It stands for......I Paid Out the Dungareees..for it....but you are worth it!!! May it bring you 25 years of listening pleasure. Remind me to give you a list of songs that must be included in YoPOD.
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