Saturday, February 7, 2009

me without You

I'm still online. I got to looking up mewithoutYou's songs on songmeanings.com. Some of the posts on there kind of upset me, actually. It's kind of of disgusting to me to see someone's expression of their difficulties and troubles on their path to God being discussed like that. I understand that those who posted those comments that I find to be disrespectful probably don't know what they're doing. Maybe they do. I don't know, but I know I shouldn't judge them or worry about it.
But I googled "Aaron Weiss interview" to dispell some of the things I have read. I don't even know what to say about him because I understand that he doesn't want anything to feed into his ego or for anyone to praise him, but to give glory to God for gaining anything from his lyrics & mewithoutYou's music. However, I can't express my thoughts on the band with any other word but "love." ....ok maybe "awesome." ..."amazing." Alright I could go on but I won't. I understand that the glory is to go to God, but mewithoutYou is definitely a powerful instrument in my relationship with God.
There were many things Aaron said in the interviews I read that struck me, but especially this one:
I hope people can see that, take my experience and one man's experience, that nothing makes you happy except for the love of God and the light of God that shines in your heart. And realize that you don't need to be good, you don't need to be together, you don't need to be smart, you don't need to be cool, you don't need to be good looking, you don't need to be confident or you know, successful or rich. You don't need to be any of those things, you just need to be broken and lonely and humble and needy, which all of us are deep down but we just hide it and try and act confident and together. So we come to God broken and then God is the physician, God is the potter. God is the loving healer, the mother and the father and lover of us all, the restorer, the forgiver, the most patient one, the most merciful, the most kind and gentle one. We'll find all we need in God, in God's provision and protection. Not a religious group or going to a church on Sunday, or joining an organization or something like that. In reality, God is the source of love and light and serving others and forgiving others and praying for others and mediating on good things and humbling yourself and not taking yourself too seriously.


I hope this could find others well. I hope some of my friends and family could read this and understand it. Hopefully...

2 comments:

jo stout. said...

this was the best thing ever. thanks for posting it.

i love you

i miss you

oh, my life.

Kristin said...

welcome :-D


can't wait to show you my "hang out" room!