Here am I, send me

"Here Am I" - MercyMe

On the other side of the world
She stands on the ocean shore
Gazing at the heavens
She wonders, is there something more
Never been told the name of Jesus
She turns and walks away
What a shame

Just across the street in your hometown
Leaving from his nine-to-five
Gazing down the road
He wonders, is this all there is to life
Never been told the name of Jesus
He continues on his way
What a shame

Whom shall I send?
Who will go for me
To the ends of the earth
Who will rise up for their King?
Here am I, send me
Here am I, send me

Whether foreign land or neighbours
Everyone's the same
Searching for the answers
That lie within your name
I wanna proclaim the love of Jesus
In all I do and say
Unashamed

Whom shall I send?
Who will go for me
To the ends of the earth
Who will rise up for their King?
Here am I, send me
Here am I, send me

How beautiful are feet of those who bring good news
Proclaiming peace and Your salvation

Whom shall I send?
Who will go for me
To the ends of the earth
Who will rise up for their King?
Here am I, send me
Here am I, send me
Here am I, send me

A dose of realism

"Learn To Live With What You Are" - Ben Folds

I know that you're in there
I can see you
You're saying you're ok
I don't believe you

And now that the gig is off
The spell is broken
The fat lady sung
The president has spoken
These days that you were waiting for
Will come and go
Like any day
Just another day

There's never gonna be a moment of truth for you
While the world is watching
All you need is the thing you've forgotten
And that's to learn to live with what you are

So freak out if you wanna
And I'll still be here
Don't call me for years and when you do
Yeah, I'll still be here

I'm not saying the effort is a waste of time - but I
Just love you for the things you couldn't change
Though you've tried
These hours of confusion they will soon expire
Like everything
Does

There's never gonna be a moment of truth for you
While the world is watching
All you need is the thing you've forgotten
And that's to learn to live with what you are

Sometimes
Everything you've ever wanted
Floats above
He's sticking out his tongue and laughing while
Everything
Anyone could ever need
Is down below
Waiting for you to know this

There's never gonna be a moment of truth for you
While the world is watching
All you need is the thing you've forgotten
And that's to learn to live with what you are
You got to learn to live with what you are
You got to learn to live with what you are

Blog death :(

Haven't posted in more than a month, and blog is dying....So here's some suitably emo lyrics :P
(Been trying to do a piano version of this song....)

The Kill
30 Seconds to Mars

What if I wanted to break
Laugh it all off in your face
What would you do?
What if I fell to the floor
Couldn't take this anymore
What would you do?

Come, break me down
Bury me, bury me
I am finished with you

What if I wanted to fight
Beg for the rest of my life
What would you do?
You say you wanted more
What are you waiting for
I'm not running from you

Come, break me down
Bury me, bury me
I am finished with you
Look in my eyes
You're killing me, killing me
All I wanted was you

I tried to be someone else
But nothing seemed to change
I know now: this is who I really am inside
Finally found myself
Fighting for a chance
I know now: this is who I really am


Come, break me down
Bury me, bury me
I am finished with you...
Look in my eyes
You're killing me, killing me
All I wanted was you

Come, break me down
Break me down
Break me down

What if I wanted to break?
What if I, what if I... (bury me, bury me)

PCRs

OK, it's lunchtime and my assignment isn't happening...so here's what I was thinking about as I was consuming my cooked proteins, fats and carbohydrates....

[if I had a label for "church stuff", this post would go under church stuff]

So...we've all had plenty of BGR (Boy-Girl Relationship) talks at church and plenty of BGR-based discussions in camp dormitories, in Bible studies, while generally hanging out, why you may even have had your youth group leader unsuspectingly spring a BGR talk on you while drinking coffee at a social...but anyway, my point is, BGRs have been done to death. Don't get me wrong, they are good to have once in a while (I mean, we're having one at Glue this term, which I think will be a good thing), but we are always doing BGRs.

What about PCRs? No, not Polymerase Chain Reactions (for those of you who know what that is), but Parent-Child Relationships. Cos you know, I know some people who have really good relationships with their parents, but then I also know a lot of people who don't. It's not necessarily that it's a bad or antagonistic relationship, but can just be a bit...indifferent? Better? Anyway I'm sure at least some of you get what I'm talking about.

We had a few parents/kids forum things at Glue ages and ages ago....but yeah, that was ages and ages ago. And I'm sure we've had sermons on passages about husbands/wives/elders/parents/children and what not...but yeah, I dunno, they've never really stuck.

So recently (i.e. about half an hour ago while eating lunch) I've been thinking up burning questions such as these:

• How should you relate to Christian parents? (I mean, on a practical level, what should it look like?)
• How should you relate to non-Christian parents?
• Does 'not fighting' with your parents constitute a 'good' relationship with them? Or should you be striving for more?
• What if you have a better relationship with one parent than the other?
• [In an Asian immigrant culture] How do you maintain relationships with "astronaut" parents? (sorry, direct translation from a weird Cantonese term - anyway it means the situation when typically the dad goes back to Asia to work and only sees the kids in Australia a few times a year)
• What if your parents are divorced?
• Do only children have a different relationship with their parents than children with siblings? What if your parents are overprotective? (What if your parents are Asian? lol)
• Actually, yeah, what if your parents are Asian/ have a different culture...and yeah, various issues stemming from that...
• What about (arrrgh!) ministers' kids? Missionaries' kids?? (OK, is it just me, or do people have certain stereotypes about what these families should be like?)
• Who should the parents love more, their spouse or their kids? (hmmm!)
• How should you relate to your parents once you move out of home/ get married?
• And from a Christian parent's perspective: how should you relate to kids who fall away?

Could go on forever...

But yes, PCRs! Because who else here thinks it's relevant and is sick of BGRs? (OK, I could be alone on this point here...)

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