A Prayer

I found this prayer in the novel I'm reading by Susan Howatch, Absolute Truths. Tell me that this isn't your prayer, as well as mine.

Oh God, save me from myself, save me from myself…this masterful self which manipulates your creation…this self which throws the thick shadow of its own purposes and desires in every direction in which I try to look, so that I cannot see what it is that you, my Lord and God, are showing to me. Teach me to stand out of my own light and let your daylight shine. __Austin Farrer, Warden of Keble College, Oxford, 1960-1968__

shalom, matt

Faith in Man

The great problem in the life of man is whether to trust, to have faith in God. The great problem in the life of God is whether to trust, to have faith in man.

The central issue is not man’s decision to extend formal recognition to God, to furnish God with a certificate that he exists, but the realization of our importance to God’s design; not to prove that God is alive, but to prove that man is not dead; not to prove him, but to prove ourselves. __Abraham Joshua Heschel__

Everybody Here Is a Cloud

Amazing lyrics from one of my favorite bands, Cloud Cult. The song is called, you guessed it, Everybody Here Is a Cloud.

And everybody here is a cloud

And everybody here will evaporate

You came up from the ground

From a million little pieces, have you found where your place is?

Have you found where your place is?

Have you found where your place is?

 

You've been spending your time

Thinkin' about why you think so much

If there ever was a time

Now would be the time to see your time here is limited

 

Everybody here is a crowd

We all walk around with a million faces

Somebody turn the lights out

There's so much more to see in the darkest places

In the darkest places

In the darkest places

 

And everybody here is a cloud

And everybody here will evaporate

You came up off the ground

From a million little pieces, have you found where your place is?

 

Everybody here is waiting for the next creation

They say oh-oh-oh-oh

Everybody here is waiting for the next creation

They say go-go-go-go

 

Everybody here is a crowd

We each walk around with a million faces

You came up from the ground

From a million little pieces, have you found where your place is?

Have you found where your place is?

Have you found where your place is?