Lyrics On Friday

by | Feb 6, 2009 | Music

This weeks installement…

I wanna find my way
Find my way back home
I want to learn to love
And I want to be known

Cause I want to tell you how
But there’s no good metaphor
Knocking at my door

So will you help me friend?
Help discover this new world
Don’t quite know where to begin
But I imagine it on the horizon

The light is breakin’ through
Still I don’t know what to do
Standing here just me and you

And you know that I would run if the wind would call me
And I would rise, but it seems I’m falling
And I just need a place now to begin… to begin
So I can begin again

So do we just start right here
Or go back to the same square one
Isn’t that my biggest fear?
That I’ll miss it when it comes

Cause I don’t know what to do
Is the Kingdom even breakin’ through?
God, I hope it still is true

Cause from everything I see
The biggest problem still seems to be me
And for all the ways the world is shit
There is so much beauty in all of it

But I can’t seem to find
The very thing that haunts my mind
Could it be that I’m still blind?

And you know that I would see if you’d wash my eyes
But I keep swallowing the same old lies
And I just need a place now to begin… to begin
So I can begin again

Is it true? Or is it fantasy?
What is real? Is it mere chemistry?
And where is home? Some place I can’t be.
Is it true? Or is it just my own delusion?

Cause you know that I want to believe you now
But I lost my way somehow
And I just need a place now to begin…

To begin to see that I can find my way home, my friend
And I might, but until then, well…
I just need a place now to begin… to begin
So I can begin again

[Begin Again by The Cobalt Season]

Whats been running through your head this week?

A Barely-Audible Murmur

by | Feb 4, 2009 | Faith

Tonight I wanted to go sit in a chapel or church building somewhere. You know, the kind with stained glass windows & high ceilings. The ones where, when you walk in, your gaze is instinctively drawn upwards, and so too your thoughts.

Instead, God took me on a walk through the snow.

glasgow-snow

I walked out of town, and I wandered around the west end. I ended up at the back of Glasgow University main building, my favourite thinking spot in the city. I stood at the flagpole staring out over the city, frustrated at my inability to voice concerns and stresses to those around me.

And in my frustration, God whispered.

The same God whom I have been annoyed at,
whom I haven’t been conversing with,
whom I have taken my pain out on.

He reminded me that he loves me.

He reminded me that he sees me like the snow that was falling all around me – whiter than white. That he has forgiven me, not only of the past but of the future.

And he dared me…

“I will shower my blessing on you with abundance, if you’ll only step out into the storm to receive it…”

Blessing & heartbreak at once, eh?

The Year the Internet Overtook Newspapers

by | Feb 2, 2009 | Web 2.0

Every day I get the Daily Stat from Harvard Business School, a quick stat or fact about something notable in the business/tech world. One of last weeks stats particularly picqued my interest…

hbs-internet-news-stats

In 2008, for the first time ever, more Americans relied on the Internet for national and international news than on newspapers. In December 2008, 40% of those surveyed said they get most of their news on the Internet, up from 24% in September 2007. 35% still mainly read newspapers, and 70% say television is their primary source of news.

Source: Pew Research Center