A Friday song
Whenever life gets rather boggy and sad (as it is down in Eeyore’s Gloomy Place), Sara Groves helps me wash off some of the clingiest mud.
On first listening to this song I thought it was a little, well, “corney”, but now I really like it. To me it’s about those moments when you feel like you aren’t going to trust anyone (or someone) again, when you have pushed through your own defences and tried to do something you weren’t so comfortable doing (because you believed it to be good) and it just backfired on your soul, when you have made yourself vulnerable and been scorched, more than once, when you wonder where is the benefit in trying to talk to anyone about anything potentially difficult and think you might enlist in the ranks of the self-protective and defensive to keep yourself safe from all the trouble ...
Only that is not really how God asks us, or Jesus shows us how, to live (see Colossians 3:12-15, 1 Peter 4:8).