draw near

Monday, June 23, 2008

1:13 AM

faith is spelt r-i-s-k.

some of you know that's the very phrase that confirmed my conviction of what course to do in uni.

strangely enough, as the semester draws to close, that phrase resurfaced in a message i took the time to listen to yesterday afternoon.

and i just listened to the song 'breakaway'. and i thought the lyrics quite aptly described the bigger picture relating to why i came here. some excerpts here (the more applicable parts):

Dreaming of what could be
And if I'd end up happy
I would pray

Travel on an airplane, far away

I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
I'll do what it takes til' I touch the sky

But I won't forget all the ones that I loved
I'll take a risk, take a chance, make a change
And breakaway

Buildings with a hundred floors
Swinging 'round revolving doors
Maybe I don't know where they'll take me but
Gotta keep moving on, moving on
Fly away, breakaway

very often i have so many thoughts running across my mind all at once, so many that they have to be organised in prose. other times i come across songs and it dawns upon me that the lyrics describe what's on my mind. am i making sense??

all i'm really saying is sometimes my thoughts are all over the place... like flying ropes with many loose ends needed to be tied... this makes it necessary to sift through them, to dig at what's really beneath it all. abstract would be the right term to describe my thoughts. i like thinking metaphorically, figuratively, as opposed to literally. somewhat linked to this is how i am very idealistic in many ways. i am very much a dreamer. i tend to focus on how things could be rather than how things are. sometimes i wonder if i'm excessively idealistic. that's why it's so important to be able to quiet my soul...

to be still and know He is God.
be still and know.
be still.
be.

be steadfast in Him... to receive the peace that transcends all understanding, and which guards my heart and mind.