Water

This is a post I made a draft of in October of 2012. I rewrote to make it relevant to my life today.

My veins the sea

Your tears the sea

If we but knew

Here together apart

To water the earth

To shape, to wear away stone,

To meet, to carry, to be changed

If we but knew

Here to seek the low place

Here to run to the sea

The words above are the words in a song that we sang last year in my choir called Water. This song challenged me both musically and also just overall in my life.

Although things are generally going pretty well, I have been really struggling recently with quite a few different things. These include figuring out what I want to do after graduation, finding a job, doing everything that goes along with finding a job (resumes, cover letters), keeping up with school stuff, trying to figure out my relationship with God, finances, etc. Most of the time it is fine and I am able to take things one at a time but other times it seems like everything is piling up and I feel trapped and a bit alone.

The second to last line in this song talks about seeking the low place. I remember so vividly last year a friend of mine said that sometimes it honestly is OK to be weak, to hurt, to be in that low place that we all fall in to at one time or another, to need others. This is something that I am clinging to at the moment. When I am weak and falling apart I recognize that it is ok to ask for help and to lean on those who love me, just as I would hope they would come to me when they struggle.

I love the line in this song "To meet, to carry, to be changed." I interpret it as we meet one another, then through our relationship we carry one another during the harder times, and through these experiences and relationships we change as a person. We are called, religiously or just as human beings, to wear away the stone in the hearts of our fellow human beings.

In the end we all run in to the sea.



To meet, to carry, to be changed.