ok. i will admit it...when i'm in the car, if i don't have my ipod (which is most of the time because i forget to grab it or charge it) then i listen to christian radio. for some reason when i write that out, i feel like that means i should also be wearing mom jeans, wooden jewelry and cruising in my minivan. is that rude?
anyway, i think this is true of all such stations, but the one where i live is particularly notorious for playing songs over and over and over and over....you get the picture. well, because of this, i've heard a new song lately by point of grace that for some reason pulls on my little emotional strings...maybe it's because i'm a mom now, i don't know. it says things like "wear your red dress...dance with your wife...give your children lots of kisses...etc." reminds me a little of a country song that was popular when i was in college that said "i hope you dance...." talking about walking through life gracefully.
ANYway, I digress. toward the end of the song there's a phrase that says "make peace with god, and make peace with yourself....in the end there's nobody else." and everytime i hear that particular line something in me goes, "What?" i guess i understand what it's trying to say...something to the effect of that when we leave this world we go on our own - it's just a matter of me before the Lord, but then again, something about it doesn't sit right with me. What do you think?
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okay i admit that SOMETIMES i listen to christian radio here in St. Louis. I also admit that most of the time it annoys me, yet i listen on. the other day i heard Kirk Franklin, backed by the choir, sing the "I sing because I'm Happy" song (no idea the real title)... and I cried. Something about "I sing because I'm happy, I sing because I'm free" just brought me to weepy tears... good happy thankful tears.
but back to your question. yes I suppose they say when we go, we go alone. but really i don't by it. I'm one with Jesse before the Lord and my children are the one thing I have here that will in fact follow me into eternity... but i like the message of making peace. so many just tell you to try and find it.
I think it's bunk to think that we go alone...and I don't think there is too much to back up this idea. I think, in fact, there is more in scripture that indicates that we are definitely not in it all alone. So who knows what they are singing about. I mean, I love Jesus and I am (most days) excited to think about being with him forever...but I would be highly disappointed if I find myself at a table for two in the new kingdom. Not because I don't think Jesus would be a great dinner companion, but because I think it would go against everything that I have believed about the significance of the body of believers and that we are a people who are redeemed (not merely individuals).
ANYway...I don't even know if I am making sense. But I agree with making peace...in all circumstance.
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