UPDATE: As I sat trying to record the song, I ended up changing the lyrics as they didn’t flow the way I wanted them to….sometimes you never know what the final product is going to be….in a sense, I realize more often than not, that the song is leading me instead of me leading the song.
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Been reflecting on the idea of what it means to live in community and fell upon this quote.
“I think the idea that you can have an intentional community is about as misleading as saying you can have an intentional life. If you’re going to have a decent and stable community, you’ve got to produce the cultural and social forms by which to deal with the unexpected and the undesirable. The intentional community idea assumes that when you say love your neighbor as yourself, you have some kind of right to pick your neighbor. I think the ideal of loving your neighbor has to take on the possibility that he may be somebody you’re going to have great difficulty loving or liking or even tolerating.”
Wendell Berry -from an interview in Mother Earth News, 1973
Doing life with other people in the way that Jesus really wants us to….is scary stuff. It’s opening yourself up to a world of hurt, disappointment, and vulnerability. But it’s also opening up to the best kind of love…the kind of love that is rich in patience, understanding…love that is long-suffering, bears all things….the kind of love that can only be taught through making mistakes….the best kind of mistakes….
Song Title: Uneasy (recording coming soon)
(c) 2011 Neah Lee
If every road that rises up
would meet me with its full intent
I would lay claims on the future
and carry with me no regrets
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It’s easy when each step is placed
so neatly with no risk to take
imaginary leaps and gains……
I’ve think I’ve made
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so maybe, it’s time
i take this road
less traveled on
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’cause sometimes, it takes
losing my way
to finally be found
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