Reflective Beauty: Aslan song

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Aslan song

Good song I just listened to on Pandora Radio! Hope it encourages someone as it did me. :-)

Aslan

-Kendall Payne-

Don't stop your crying on my account
A frightening lion, no doubt
He's not safe, no he's not safe
Are you tempted now to run away?
The King above all Kings is coming down

But He won't say the words you wish that he would
Oh, he don't do the deeds you know that He could
He won't think the thoughts you think He should
But He is good, He is good

I know you're thirsty, the water is free
But I should warn you, it costs everything
Well, He's not fair, no He's not fair
When He fixes what's beyond repair
And graces everyone that don't deserve

No one knows Him whom eyes never seen
No, I don't know Him but He knows me
He knows me, He knows me

Lay down your layers, shed off your skin
But without His incision, you can't enter in
He cuts deep, yeah He cuts deep
When the risk is great and the talk is cheap
But never leaves a wounded one behind

7 comments:

Mrs. E12:30 AM
That is beautiful indeed!!

Many Blessings~ Jen
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Anonymous11:36 AM
I loved this song from the first moment I heard and really appreciate you posting it (and your blog, I think we might be kindred spirits :) I love your Lewis quote about the ultimate career :)
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Rael1:34 PM
Thanks for the comments! :-)

Anonymous, I'm afraid you forgot to sign your name! I'm always delighted to meet kindred spirits. Do you have a blog I can visit?
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Anonymous8:17 PM
I tried to sign my name (with the name/url option), but clearly, it didn't work. I'm Julia and I don't have a blog, but am thinking about starting one. I'll let you know if I do :) Have you checked out the REBELution website or the counsel on Biblical Manhood/Womanhood?
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Rael8:48 AM
I'm sorry the sign in thing didn't work. But it's great to meet you, Julia! :-) As you can see, I have a hard time keeping my blog up-to-date, but when I do I enjoy it quite a bit. I love the Rebelution website! :-) I haven't been to the other one recently, but from what I remember it's a good one too.
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Bookish Belle10:08 PM
I succumbed, I started a blog http://bookishbelle.blogspot.com/
Julia
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Rael10:13 PM
Oh, goody! I'm going right over to visit it, Julia! :-)
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To the One I want to reflect...

You are the sun
shining down on everyone,
light of the world
giving light to everything I see
beauty so brilliant
I can hardly take it in
and everywhere You are
is warmth and light

And I am the moon
with no light of my own
still You have made me
to shine
and as I glow
in this cold dark night
I know I can't be a light
unless I turn my face to You

Shine on me with Your light
Without You I'm a cold dark stone
Shine on me
I have no light of my own
You are the sun,
You are the sun,
You are the sun
And I am the moon

~Sara Groves~

Quotes on Happiness

We are halfhearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
~C. S. Lewis~

God threatens terrible things if we will not be happy.
~Jeremy Taylor~

God is the one Being in all the universe for whom seeking His own praise is the ultimately loving act. For Him, self-exaltation is the highest virtue. When He does all things "for the praise of His glory," He preserves for us and offers to us the only thing in all the world that can satisfy our longings. God is for us! And the foundation of this love is that God has been, is now, and always will be for Himself.
~John Piper~

"At the end of things, The Blessed will say, “We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven.” And the lost will say, “We were always in Hell.” And both will speak truly."
~ C.S. Lewis ~

"Who is my neighbor?"

"I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do to those we know. God may call any one of us to respond to some far away problem or support those who have been so called. But we are finite and he will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us."
~ C. S. Lewis ~

Beauty vs. Attractiveness

Christians reading these reports must remember that beauty and attractiveness are not the same thing. Beauty, according to the Christian worldview, is established by God himself, and is inseparable from truth and goodness. Attractiveness is the mere delight of the eyes. In a sinful world, our eyes delight in many wrong things, and many of the most beautiful realities are, to the mere eyes, unattractive.

After all, we follow our Savior who “had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.” [Isaiah 53:2]. The cross is not pretty, but it is beautiful. This is the ironic foundation of a Christian understanding of beauty. We cannot merely trust our eyes, for our eyes will lie to us, and we are to find beauty in truth.

Albert Mohler