Let This Be My Prayer

This song is by Switchfoot, called Sing It Out, and really... I don't see it just as an awesome song. As I was listening to it after my crappy day it reminded me... let this be my prayer. Let this be the simple prayer of my life. Especially one of the verses, that goes like this:

And I fall in love
With the ones that run me through
When all along all I need is you

It reminds me... we fall in love so much with the world around us and the things God has placed in it to give us pleasure or people have twisted in sick ways to be addictive and destroy lives that well... all along, all we need is God. All we need is his love. He understands all. He loves all unconditionally. He knows the situation you're going through. You are unique but your situations are not. God heals all wounds. God is your best friend and greatest companion. Do you treat him like that?

Jon Foreman (lead singer of Switchfoot) has some great words as to the meaning of this song for him:

"Sometimes I lose the plot. I feel like I'm hopelessly lost underwater, as though I can't figure out which way is up. I know that there's a song somewhere inside of me but I just can't remember what it is. I want my life to be the poetry of the Poet himself, I want to sing- to be a melody intertwined with The Melody Himself. But sometimes I'm hopelessly lost, broken, spent. I fall in love with the ones and things that take life and love away from me. I need The Song Himself to sing through me. I need The Word Himself to speak into me." - Jon Foreman

YouTube Link (song only)

Lyrics
I'm on the run
I'm on the ropes this time
Where is my song?
I've lost the song of my soul tonight

Sing it out
Sing it out
Take what is left of me
Make it a melody

Sing it out
Sing out loud
I can't find the words to sing
You'd be my remedy

My song
My song
I'll sing with what's left of me

Where is the sun?
Feel like a ghost this time
Where have you gone?
I need your breath in my lungs tonight

Sing it out
Sing it out
Take what is left of me
Make it a melody

Sing it out
Sing out loud
I can't find the words to sing
You'd be my remedy

My song
My song
I'll sing with what's left of me

I'm holding on
I'm holding on to you
My world is wrong
My world is a lie that's come true

And I fall in love
With the ones that run me through
When all along all I need is you

Sing it out
Sing it out
Take what is left of me
Make it a melody

Sing it out
Sing out loud
I can't find the words to sing
You'd be my remedy

My song
My song
My song
I'll sing with what's left of me

/frustrated

You know that feeling when you should be happy but you just can't, no matter how hard you try? That's about how I'm feeling right now. I have this feeling of I'm where I should be, doing what I should be doing, but it doesn't seem to be helping. I almost feel alone. So alone I've lost feeling. And I've only been alone for a week. Its really getting to me. I miss my friends. I miss my family. I'm frustrated.
I thought I would enjoy this. Y'know. Living on my own. Making my own choices. Not have anyone else messing up the place or playing xbox when I wanted to watch tv. So far its been a total bummer. Having nobody here to go grocery shopping with, make fun of, joke around with when I get home... its really really lonely. Having frustrating homework doesn't help. I have this class that they're quizzing on the section before they teach it so we read the book but the problem is, I don't learn by reading. I learn by being taught in class and taking notes - in class. I know its only been one week but we have 2 quizzes to do on the weekend before we've been taught the stuff. I tried studying for the first one, went and did it online, and half the questions I don't remember reading about. Its dumb. And I wish they would teach us what we need to know before expecting us to know what we need to know.

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