January 19, 2009
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Lately it’s been hard to remember the distinction between life and death.
Our words prove we’re alive, but our actions prove we don’t know it.
But I don’t want to be numb to the beauty of this world.
It’s cold, but there is weather at all.
I’ve been bruised, cut up, and scarred, but I’m alive.
I’ve been hurt, but I can know just one true friend.
But most of all, just to wake in the morning and remember that everything is built on grace.
Why have this body and landscape of life at all?
If I die tomorrow in a car accident, God is still good, and I’m happy for the life He allowed me to have.
Comments (8)
Are you doing ok?
@Linley_K -
lol ya. It’s a happy post. It was meant to convey a posture of gratitude towards God, that is all.
I guess it can seem depressing in a way. Hmm. Well, it made sense given the song that was playing in my head. I guess music is just to hard to transfer into a nonmusical medium.
But yaya im doooing good. Thank you for asking. How you doin’?
haha
It was just rather wistful, so I was just checkin. 
Good for you. What song?
…and I’ve been doing good. kinda sleepy. =)
@Linley_K -
You didn’t sleep in this morning? Even I couldn’t resist. Although now I have much to do this evening. Are you a nocturnalist?
Jon Foreman’s ‘Broken from the Start.’ It’s a rather wistful song itself. The first lines go,
“Life is a gift like fresh cut roses
Cut from the branch and brought inside”
Which started me thinking about beauty/appreciation, and I liked the tune.
well, you know what. That song is not on youtube. :-O !! oh well.
I’m not really a nocturnalist by choice. It’s kind of procrastination about getting ready for sleep, or just plain homework. This semester I have four mornings of seven-fifties so I’ve been forced to sleep sooner. haha
for some reason we always try to find beauty in television or in movies. but beauty is all around us.
[[Our words prove we're alive, but our actions prove we don't know it.]]
This one gave me a bit of a sardonic laugh simply because it’s so true. The best way to live is as if you’re to die tomorrow. I think people would be considerably nicer, happier, and more relaxed if they lived under the impression that they were to die tomorrow. It just has a way of putting things into perspective.
[[But I don't want to be numb to the beauty of this world.]]
This struck me as a very odd comment to make. Namely because I once had an experience much like this and it left me wondering. Do you suppose its God glory shining through creation the grants true beauty? And that’s why fallen man only rarely appreciates or notices the beauty of the natural world. It absolutely captivates me at times… and yet, I don’t understand why other aren’t touched by it. Those who refuse to see God, also refuse to see the full beauty of nature. Just a theory.
[[Why have this body and landscape of life at all?]]
This reminds me of a conversation I once heard. It went something like this:
“What is the meaning of life?”
“Are you alive?”
“Yes.”
“Than you already know.”
[[If I die tomorrow in a car accident, God is still good, and I'm happy for the life He allowed me to have.]]
Death is not the end for a Christian but rather a beginning. But most of all, we get to return home to God. Nothing this world has to offer could ever top that.
@Yume_Shii -
[[Why have this body and landscape of life at all?]] This reminds me of a conversation I once heard. It went something like this: “What is the meaning of life?” “Are you alive?” “Yes.” “Than you already know.” An interesting exchange. (Almost sounds like part of a movie.) But I think that is at least false for me. The answer to the question ‘Why have this body and landscape of life at all?’ is supposed to be implied from the previous line about everything being built on grace. For someone may think, even if there were a God, why give us lives? It is because of grace. A few weeks ago I got the image of a human standing on a continuum which was 90% full. But they were facing the way that was 10% empty. Because of this, they were very sad; they were only looking at what they did not have. This was me, and every other human in my mind: always with life, breath, and everything else, but unhappy because of how much we focus on what we don’t have. After thinking of all I had, and realizing it was all simply a gift born out of grace, I realized I may as well die tomorrow, and all would be well; how much God has given each of us already. God’s grace doesn’t merely fill our lives, our very lives themselves are an expression of His grace, and that is something it took me quite an amount of time to realize for every day. There may be another angle your dialogue was meant to convey; but this is the way I react to what I think it is saying.