Howdy,
Yesterday was about living a “Happy Monday!” though it’s easy to want to curse the work week.
I toned it down from “death” but found a line with meaning and rhyme: “Ah, and one day closer to our last breath.”
It was about today, that we’d be one day closer. The idea being that, yesterday, we’d have “Something to think about as we live …”
Today’s the same.
I want to bring in lyrics on living life well from a new song on Where The Light Shines Through by Switchfoot.
Yeah
(I wanna live it well)
Yeah, yeah
(I wanna live it well)
Yeah
Take the burden from my arms
Take the anchors off my lungs
Take me broken and make me one
Break the silence and make it a song
Life is short; I wanna live it well
One life, one story to tell
Life is short; I wanna live it well
And you’re the one I’m living for
Awaken all my soul
Every breath that you take is a miracle
Life is short; I wanna live it well, yeah
I wanna sing with all my heart a lifelong song
Even if some notes come out right and some come out wrong
‘Cause I can’t take none of that through the door
Yeah, I’m living for more than just a funeral
I wanna burn brighter than the dawn
Life is short; I wanna live it well
One life, one story to tell
Life is short; I wanna live it well
And you’re the one I’m living for
Awaken all my soul
Every breath that you take is a miracle
Life is short; I wanna live it well, yeah
I got one life and one love
I got one voice, but maybe that’s enough
‘Cause with one heartbeat and two hands to give
I got one shot and one life to live
One life to live, yeah
And every breath you take is a miracle.
Life is short; I wanna live it well
One life, one story to tell (one love)
Life is short; I wanna live it well
And you’re the one I’m living for (the one, yeah)
Awaken all my soul
Every breath that you take is a miracle
Life is short; I wanna live it well
And you’re the one I’m living for
One life, one love
(One love) One life, one love
(One voice) One voice, yeah
(And that’s enough) And that’s enough, oh
(One heartbeat, two hands to give)
I got one shot and one life to live
One life to live
*Written by Jonathan Mark Foreman, Timothy David Foreman.
Hearing Live It Well on the radio, phrases caught my attention and typing out the full lyrics even more so.
Obviously, we’ve been talking about living, and, hey, let’s do it well.
Three for the blog:
1) “One life, one story to tell”
2) “Even if some notes come out right and some come out wrong”
3) “I got one voice, but maybe that’s enough”
1) “One life, one story to tell”
Story. I’m working on it.
It surrounds.
I seek to listen to story, live it, and learn to tell it, better and better.
2) “Even if some notes come out right and some come out wrong”
That’s part of this blog; and publishing daily.
Trust me, readers, I honor your attention, never taking it or you for granted. I strive for content worthy of it and worth your time.
At the same time, I write even if some words come out right and some wrong. Mistakes will be made. Crumbles under wonderful lines to be written.
I actually want to live that way also; shed Billy Hawes is good, which isn’t true and never has been. But a myth I live way too often, clinging to a contagious religious standard and a ridiculous show. Only God is Good, and the crucified and resurrected Christ has made me righteous before Him. Amen! As I live for Him, I want to live, live well, alive, some notes coming out right and realizing some wrong, living for the Kingdom in grace, in repents, with grace for others. Live more like Jesus and less shrouded in a cultural Christian-term cracking under the weight of comfortable nominalism.
3) “I got one voice, but maybe that’s enough”
We talk about voice. That’s what writers do. Honing one to have one, a voice in writing. The writer behind the typing heard in his words. I want to have one, with strength, exercised and rippling. Amplify the one I have.
Live it well this week!
—Billy
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