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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
"Busy" hides a broken man
It seems like a very appropriate time to write about a favorite topic of mine. Its a topic I understand well, and its one which affects most of us. Busy-ness... I wrote a song about a year ago called Slow Down. Here are the words:
Slow down, slow down
no need for sound
endure some silence
slow down, slow down
Forever chaos, frenzy, day-loss
No sleep, speed freak
You never see light
You've only half-life
Your work is your wife
Your solution. - noise polution
"busy" hides a broken man
"busy" fakes you
overtakes you
playing "catch me if you can"
Slow down, slow down
no need for sound
endure some silence
slow down, slow down
There are many busy people in this world, including me, or at least thats what I often tell people. But is it true? We use the word "busy" as an excuse for our laziness, or our failure to discipline ourselves. We say "I've just been so busy" or if asked how is work we might say "It's so busy right now". In some cases its true, we are busy but I'm certian that most of us like to give the impression that we are busier than we are. It is after all a failsafe excuse for many things.
I know I'm guilty of this, and if you can see this in yourself too, I dare you to read on.
Have you ever stopped to asked yourself why you're so busy? Or rather, why you allow yourself to be so busy. We know that its not good to be so busy that we don't socialise, that we don't see family or friends or that life passes us by before we realise that we forgot to actually enjoy it! Yet, for some reason we allow ourselves to succumb to business. Funny isn't it, the word "business" could be taken as a very negative word. And I actually think it should be. The business world - all the people on this planet who allow their work to control their lives. A businessman - a man so busy with business that he seldom sees his kids. Of course I'm talking extremes here, but you get my point I hope, the subtext here is that making money is given higher priority than the things we really should be valuing.
Busy hides a broken man. When faced with troubles we often try to stay busy so that we avoid thinking about the problems. While this works as a temporary solution, in fact it does nothing but delay actually dealing with problems, be they emotional, material, spiritual, physical - whatever. This busy-ness can easily become a habitual method of getting by. As long as you stay busy, keep focussed, stay driven, you'll be alright. If however, the music stops for one moment, the whole world comes crashing down.
The music does inevitably stop...
Slow down, slow down
no need for sound
endure some silence
slow down, slow down
Forever chaos, frenzy, day-loss
No sleep, speed freak
You never see light
You've only half-life
Your work is your wife
Your solution. - noise polution
"busy" hides a broken man
"busy" fakes you
overtakes you
playing "catch me if you can"
Slow down, slow down
no need for sound
endure some silence
slow down, slow down
There are many busy people in this world, including me, or at least thats what I often tell people. But is it true? We use the word "busy" as an excuse for our laziness, or our failure to discipline ourselves. We say "I've just been so busy" or if asked how is work we might say "It's so busy right now". In some cases its true, we are busy but I'm certian that most of us like to give the impression that we are busier than we are. It is after all a failsafe excuse for many things.
I know I'm guilty of this, and if you can see this in yourself too, I dare you to read on.
Have you ever stopped to asked yourself why you're so busy? Or rather, why you allow yourself to be so busy. We know that its not good to be so busy that we don't socialise, that we don't see family or friends or that life passes us by before we realise that we forgot to actually enjoy it! Yet, for some reason we allow ourselves to succumb to business. Funny isn't it, the word "business" could be taken as a very negative word. And I actually think it should be. The business world - all the people on this planet who allow their work to control their lives. A businessman - a man so busy with business that he seldom sees his kids. Of course I'm talking extremes here, but you get my point I hope, the subtext here is that making money is given higher priority than the things we really should be valuing.
Busy hides a broken man. When faced with troubles we often try to stay busy so that we avoid thinking about the problems. While this works as a temporary solution, in fact it does nothing but delay actually dealing with problems, be they emotional, material, spiritual, physical - whatever. This busy-ness can easily become a habitual method of getting by. As long as you stay busy, keep focussed, stay driven, you'll be alright. If however, the music stops for one moment, the whole world comes crashing down.
The music does inevitably stop...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Back to basics
I'm rediscovering the joys of letter-writing. Yep, that's right, not emails nor blogs nor Facebook. I mean real letters, and I have to say its liberating. Whilst the digital age has given us so much in terms of speed we have lost the nuances and beauty that only seem to come when putting a pen to paper. It's hard to explain, but there's more of a sense when writing that you're actually speaking to the other person. Like you can almost hear the other person's voice as you imagine them reading it. There's also a more personal element in that the writing is created by your own hand, it has its own unique fingerprint to it that makes it from you and only you. Email's just don't cut it in that sense. They all come in a pretty much standardised font, and as a result are a little impersonal - purely informational, not soulful. The other day someone asked if St. Paul (I prefer to refer to him as the apostle Paul, since as believers in Christ we are all saints) were alive today, what method would he use to communicate with the churches? I'd like to think he'd still write letters. The things he wrote were so important, so foundational to the church that I'd say they would need to be on paper still. There's something so much more deliberate about everything you say when its in letter form and written with your own hand. It becomes set in stone, you know that as you are writing, and you write accordingly.
I listened recently to a rare interview with Morrisey (formerly of rock band The Smiths). He's a very intelligent man, and he predicted a time when people would begin to lose heart with the digital age, when they would realise the isolation caused in its attempt to bring the world together, when people's yearning for real human contact and social interaction would become so strong as to cause a rejection of, or a rebellion against the virtual world. I can sympathise with this totally. I work in IT, I'm with computers all day, that's my job. Yet a large part of me is longing to go do something with my hands, away from technology, to live a real life, a simple life. Technology has brought us so much freedom, but at the same time I think it enslaves us....
I listened recently to a rare interview with Morrisey (formerly of rock band The Smiths). He's a very intelligent man, and he predicted a time when people would begin to lose heart with the digital age, when they would realise the isolation caused in its attempt to bring the world together, when people's yearning for real human contact and social interaction would become so strong as to cause a rejection of, or a rebellion against the virtual world. I can sympathise with this totally. I work in IT, I'm with computers all day, that's my job. Yet a large part of me is longing to go do something with my hands, away from technology, to live a real life, a simple life. Technology has brought us so much freedom, but at the same time I think it enslaves us....
Saturday, September 19, 2009
A moment of weakness
I showed weakness, hid it fast
lest someone see a heart of glass
lest someone see the real me
for if they see, might come to pass
that they would see broken glass
I pride myself in being strong
in being right not being wrong
but being right is stubbornness
and being right gives no repair
of brokenness, of soul's despair
show your weakness - show it fast!
that all will see your broken glass
that all will see the real real you
and you will see what comes to pass
is heart no longer broken glass
© 2009 wearyourheartout
lest someone see a heart of glass
lest someone see the real me
for if they see, might come to pass
that they would see broken glass
I pride myself in being strong
in being right not being wrong
but being right is stubbornness
and being right gives no repair
of brokenness, of soul's despair
show your weakness - show it fast!
that all will see your broken glass
that all will see the real real you
and you will see what comes to pass
is heart no longer broken glass
© 2009 wearyourheartout
Friday, September 18, 2009
What? more money ?!
I would have named this post "Money, money, money" but thats what the last one was called, so this is the best I could do. Sorry.
Point is that I dunno whats going on exactly, but suddenly the floodgates seem to have opened on my finances. A few months ago I helped my old pastor in UK to setup his new website. The site is a free resource for teaching materials for home/cell groups. It's good stuff. We didn't agree any price for my work, and I would have happily done it for free, but at the end he said he wanted to give me a gift for my efforts. I was kinda hoping I would get the money before my trip, as it would have gone toward the tickets, but the money didn't materialise which left me owing someone else for the tickets.
I had a figure in my head of £500 which is really a lot of money for the amount of work which I did - I guess I was just thinking that would be a nice sum. I was also adamant that i wouldn't contact him to ask about the money as its a gift, and I just didn't feel right about it. Yet today I came so close to catching him on Skype to ask. I resisted though, and so I'm glad because just a few hours later I received an email fom him, telling me that he's gonna send me £250 in the next week or so, then another £250 next month. That makes £500! God is just too awesome!
So I'll have a lot of money to pay back loans (as mentioned previously), but I also intend to invest a small amount in my music. My band has been waiting to get a bunch of our songs up on iTunes, but to do that I needed money in my UK account. It costs $10 per song (through an internet based organisation) and we have about three songs which we would want to add right away. The organisation takes no cut of the sales, you pay the $10 fee and thats it, any sales you make are 100% yours, and we only need to sell about 10 copies of each song to make back our money. We feel this is an essential step if we are to get a wider audience for our songs, and for the first time it really opens us up to the big wide world, and who knows what can happen with that...?
When the songs are up, I'll let everyone know - don't doubt that! And I expect you all to buy them... :P
My efforts to save some money also began today with a visit to "Menu" cafe for lunch with V, instead of my regular place. She works about 10 mins walk from where I work, and it made a nice change to lunch with someone. Seems we're both on the same quest to find good cheap places to eat in the city centre. And like me she's trusting God for finances big time, and seeing him do some amazing stuff! Its so cool. So we're gonna go try another place next week I guess.
Tomorow I'll be making the call to get my cable package changed to internet only. Then I can get rid of the TV. I've mentioned this to a few other people (V included), and they're considering doing the same! Very exciting times!
Point is that I dunno whats going on exactly, but suddenly the floodgates seem to have opened on my finances. A few months ago I helped my old pastor in UK to setup his new website. The site is a free resource for teaching materials for home/cell groups. It's good stuff. We didn't agree any price for my work, and I would have happily done it for free, but at the end he said he wanted to give me a gift for my efforts. I was kinda hoping I would get the money before my trip, as it would have gone toward the tickets, but the money didn't materialise which left me owing someone else for the tickets.
I had a figure in my head of £500 which is really a lot of money for the amount of work which I did - I guess I was just thinking that would be a nice sum. I was also adamant that i wouldn't contact him to ask about the money as its a gift, and I just didn't feel right about it. Yet today I came so close to catching him on Skype to ask. I resisted though, and so I'm glad because just a few hours later I received an email fom him, telling me that he's gonna send me £250 in the next week or so, then another £250 next month. That makes £500! God is just too awesome!
So I'll have a lot of money to pay back loans (as mentioned previously), but I also intend to invest a small amount in my music. My band has been waiting to get a bunch of our songs up on iTunes, but to do that I needed money in my UK account. It costs $10 per song (through an internet based organisation) and we have about three songs which we would want to add right away. The organisation takes no cut of the sales, you pay the $10 fee and thats it, any sales you make are 100% yours, and we only need to sell about 10 copies of each song to make back our money. We feel this is an essential step if we are to get a wider audience for our songs, and for the first time it really opens us up to the big wide world, and who knows what can happen with that...?
When the songs are up, I'll let everyone know - don't doubt that! And I expect you all to buy them... :P
My efforts to save some money also began today with a visit to "Menu" cafe for lunch with V, instead of my regular place. She works about 10 mins walk from where I work, and it made a nice change to lunch with someone. Seems we're both on the same quest to find good cheap places to eat in the city centre. And like me she's trusting God for finances big time, and seeing him do some amazing stuff! Its so cool. So we're gonna go try another place next week I guess.
Tomorow I'll be making the call to get my cable package changed to internet only. Then I can get rid of the TV. I've mentioned this to a few other people (V included), and they're considering doing the same! Very exciting times!
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