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"We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and everyone who has watched gluttons shoveling
down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating, will admit that we can ignore even pleasure.
But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our
pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."-C.S. Lewis "The Problem of Pain"
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I'm giving weight to circumstance
You'd swear I'm hopeless
This time just isn't like the last
I
said that last time too
This could be, this could be
It’s over, the summer is almost gone
This could be
history
It's over, the clouds are breaking now
All that is separating us
years or minutes
But sometimes I
can't wait for the end
Perspectives changing again
And all of the looks that you keep on giving me are killing me
And
some of the words I say are so naive - forgive me
-Mainstay "This Could Be"
Behind the Song:
“How
many times have I said to myself, "this is the absolute worst time of my life," only to a few weeks later say the exact same
thing to myself about a completely unrelated and new issue? If each instance really was the worst time of my life, I have
had approximately 100 "worst times" come and go. The reality of every heartbreak, big or small, is that they are all infinitely
tiny in comparison with eternity. This Could Be is a jab at myself to realize that in light of a sovereign, eternal God, each
bit of drama in my life "could be" and in fact, is over. Not giving circumstances the weight that they sometimes demand is
a very, very empowering thing.” - Justin Anderson (Mainstay)
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