I focus on Mumford & Sons because I went to Target yesterday and picked up their album Sigh no More. It's a great album (I highly recommend it). There's this song called "Awake My Soul" on the album. It just made me think. The lyrics follow:
Awake My Soul
(from the album Sigh No More by Mumford and Sons)
How fickle my heart and how woozy my eyes
I struggle to find any truth in your lies
And now my heart stumbles on things I don't know
My weakness I feel I must finally show
Lend me your hand and we'll conquer them all
But lend me your heart and I'll just let you fall
Lend me your eyes, I can change what you see
But your soul you must keep totally free
Awake my soul, awake my soul!
In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die
Where you invest your love, you invest your life
Awake my soul, awake my soul
For you were made to meet your maker
(from the album Sigh No More by Mumford and Sons)
How fickle my heart and how woozy my eyes
I struggle to find any truth in your lies
And now my heart stumbles on things I don't know
My weakness I feel I must finally show
Lend me your hand and we'll conquer them all
But lend me your heart and I'll just let you fall
Lend me your eyes, I can change what you see
But your soul you must keep totally free
Awake my soul, awake my soul!
In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die
Where you invest your love, you invest your life
Awake my soul, awake my soul
For you were made to meet your maker
I just think that this is a great song for pondering. The words that strike me are Where you invest your love, you invest your life.
Sometimes, we allow "these bodies" to become our focus and we lose our sight, our vision, our focus on the eternal and allow that focus to alter onto the present, the here, the now. While it's important to focus on today, it's also extremely important to focus on the eternal. It IS possible for us to put too much stock in the here and now, in the things of the earth. We must be vigilant and keep our souls awake so that we can invest our love and our lives in the eternal...not the earthly.
Through prayer and the sacraments, Christ gave us a way to keep our souls awake. We must remember the importance of regular reception of the sacraments, especially that of Reconciliation and the Holy Eucharist. In these ways, Christ remains present to us and within us and we are allowed the ability to keep our souls awake. Otherwise, we become too invested in life here on Earth and lose our focus on eternity, after all our souls "were made to meet [their] maker." When we meet Him, will we be able to say we invested our lives in our love for Him?
Sometimes, we allow "these bodies" to become our focus and we lose our sight, our vision, our focus on the eternal and allow that focus to alter onto the present, the here, the now. While it's important to focus on today, it's also extremely important to focus on the eternal. It IS possible for us to put too much stock in the here and now, in the things of the earth. We must be vigilant and keep our souls awake so that we can invest our love and our lives in the eternal...not the earthly.
Through prayer and the sacraments, Christ gave us a way to keep our souls awake. We must remember the importance of regular reception of the sacraments, especially that of Reconciliation and the Holy Eucharist. In these ways, Christ remains present to us and within us and we are allowed the ability to keep our souls awake. Otherwise, we become too invested in life here on Earth and lose our focus on eternity, after all our souls "were made to meet [their] maker." When we meet Him, will we be able to say we invested our lives in our love for Him?
