Friday, January 23, 2009

A lot like me

I love this song! It's off the new Jill Phillips CD called Good Things. I just think it has a wonderful message. It got me thinking about this lesson I am teaching this week on Jesus beginning his ministry & goes back to his hometown. There was an activity in the book that I thought was great. It says to take strips of paper and make a paper chain, but on 2 of the sheets write times when others judged you or hurt you. Then on 2 other sheets write times when you judged or hurt others. Then you put them together in a paper chain. But you then take 2 cut outs of hearts and you write on each side, ways that you can live for God. Then you flatten the paper chain and shred the chain and put the remains inside the 2 hearts and tape it up. It is supposed to remind you that our past will always be with us and it is apart of us, but it is our choice on how we will go forward in our lives. Anyways, this song just reminds me how similar we all are, yes we have those small differences, but we have all experienced some sort of pain and have a story to tell. We just need someone to listen and to offer that safe space to share it. Listen to someone's story this week.

Sometimes I think you hesitate to say the way you really feel
Like there’s no way that I could understand where you are coming from
But if we could tear down these walls of bricks and mortar built with fear
I think we’d be surprised to find how small our differences become

We’re all in the same boat
Sailing on the same old stormy sea
If you look real close
You’ll find you’re a lot like me

We carry different burdens and we’re wearing different battle scars
If we both had our own way we would bury them forever
They give us different stories, how we came to be the way we are
Redemption is the common thread that binds them all together

We’re all in the same boat
Sailing on the same old stormy sea
If you look real close
You’ll find you’re a lot like me

Something about being vulnerable
Makes us think we’re setting ourselves up for pain
But you won’t find judgment in these listening ears
This is a safe place

So sit down for a minute and tell me what’s been going on

We’re all in the same boat
Sailing on the same old stormy sea
If you look real close
You’ll find you’re a lot like me

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