Growing up I spent endless hours listening to the sultry broken-hearted songs of James Taylor. I almost knew them all. The neat thing was that he sang about life on Cape Cod and in the Carolinas. We seemed to travel familiar paths. I always wondered how he felt about God. He seemed so contemplative that it must have been a subject of at least one of his songs. Today I found that song - Up From Your Life. It broke my heart.
So much for your moment of prayer, God's not at home there is no there, there.
Lost in the stars, that's what you are, left here on your own.
You can only hope to live on this earth, this here is it, for all it's worth.
Nothing else awaits you, no second birth, no starry crown.
For an unbeliever like you, there's not much they can do that would turn you away.
Though I hate to see you surrender, you need to surrender, we must find you a way to
Look up from your life, up from your life, look on up from your life, look up from your life.
All these years I have gotten lost between the 6 strings of his melody and totally missed his philosophy. This song was sung with all the 'country road' easy but defined a more perilous path. It is one thing to have doubts about existence - but to turn it into a song and then to have that song addressed to the unsuspecting 'easy listener' confounds me. It regrettably reminded me that all things move us in one of two directions - toward God or away from God... even on a country road.
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You should have done like me and spent your childhood listening to John Denver. I think one would be hard-pressed to find anything in his lyrics pointing a listener down a path of non-belief. (Maybe a few steering towards lighting up a doobie, but that's another story. :))
On your information page you put that you listen to anything Diddy sings is that the P. Diddy or the Diddy Diddy DeAnna Diddy? I didn;t know if you were representing the P-Diddy!!
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