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Sunday, May 04, 2008
 
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The Giving Tree
By Shel Silverstein
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This afternoon I heard the song "Learning How To Die" by Jon Foreman. I've had the CD on loop for the past few weeks, but today I really heard the words. And when I did I thought, This is me. This is my life. This is my journey.

I said, `Please.
Don't talk about the end.
Don't talk about how every little thing goes away.`

She said, `Friend, all along..
I thought I was learning how to take,
How to bend not how to break,
How to live not how to cry,
But really..
I've been learning how to die.
I've been learning how to die.

I realized that I have been learning how to die. That means so much. Yet I don't have words.

Tonight at youth group was incredible. I felt intimacy, community, love, and honor. I felt that we were washing each other's feet, just without actually doing it. Our pain is each other's pain. We are each other's. No man is an island.
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We really are learning how to die...everyday...for HIM. For Him alone.
Posted 5/5/2008 1:29 AM by c_jamaica Xanga True Member - reply

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The Giving Tree is a good book.

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ah, that paragraph about youth is so beautiful. lately i feel like i'm loing it, i just can't open my heart at all.
Posted 5/5/2008 6:16 AM by HorsEbacK_hEavEN Xanga True Member - reply

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That's my favourite song on his Winter EP. Love love love it.

I love what you said about community too. This weekend some really horrific things have happened to some of my TWLOHA girls and that verse in the Bible has just come alive to me...about weeping with those who weep and rejoicing with those who rejoice.

So glad I have you as my sister! Love you!

Posted 5/5/2008 9:38 AM by loveisallthissoul - reply

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t i did not know you had this cd on loop too. that song struck me as well. the cure for pain, i am still running (the one jessie talked about), and in love were all like whoa too.
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hmmm, yea washing eacht others feet, hmmm this makes sense, I think I see. We should have a foot washing...

yea the lyrics to "from the inside out" from hillsong remind me of what you're saying too
"Your will above all else, still my purpose remains
The art of loosing myself in bringing you praise"

we are learning how to loose ourselves, Teddi! let's keep allowing Jesus to unravel us.

Posted 5/6/2008 4:21 PM by wantingmore14 - reply

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did you know shell silverstein wrote for play boy? eww...
Posted 5/7/2008 5:04 PM by CrossBonesAndCameos - reply


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