I love this song! Thanks to Beth who shot it my way! I hadn't heard it before but as soon as I did I connected with it. Immediately so many things came to mind as I read the lyrics and listened to it. Interestingly enough one of my first thoughts was a contrast song that comes from Simon & Garfunkel. "I Am A Rock" is a similar theme but with a very different response and outcome. I also thought of Matthew 7:25-27 in which we are given a visual of what kind of house will withstand the storms of life. With a sure and solid foundation we can withstand life. Our walls may get knocked down, maybe they need to, but our foundation is what keeps us upright.
I understand wall building for the purposes of making myself secure and safe. Problem is those walls are usually poorly constructed and are built with shabby materials that I have gathered hastily and usually once they get knocked down mold and other bacteria is exposed. Yuck. What is the cause of hastily constructed walls? Shame, rejection, fear, insecurities, anger, anything that keeps us locked up or isolated (much like an island is isolated, see my tie-in eh, eh? :) ). In those cases the best thing to happen to us is the hand of God, perhaps in the form of a "hurricane", bringing about destruction of the poorly constructed barriers for the greater good. Living with mold will eventually make you sick. I'll let you chew on that for awhile and draw your own parallels!
I've invited the hand of God into my life on several occasions for the sole purpose of renovating, for the purpose of knocking down my walls because I haven't had the courage or strength to do it myself. Unlike Simon & Garfunkel I am not okay being an island...and truth be told I don't think they really are either. We are created for relationship and community, nobody can be a rock or an island and feel nothing. We all feel something and we all need others.
Got walls? Ask God for a hurricane! :)
Hurricane
I Am A Rock (Simon & Garfunkel)
I understand wall building for the purposes of making myself secure and safe. Problem is those walls are usually poorly constructed and are built with shabby materials that I have gathered hastily and usually once they get knocked down mold and other bacteria is exposed. Yuck. What is the cause of hastily constructed walls? Shame, rejection, fear, insecurities, anger, anything that keeps us locked up or isolated (much like an island is isolated, see my tie-in eh, eh? :) ). In those cases the best thing to happen to us is the hand of God, perhaps in the form of a "hurricane", bringing about destruction of the poorly constructed barriers for the greater good. Living with mold will eventually make you sick. I'll let you chew on that for awhile and draw your own parallels!
I've invited the hand of God into my life on several occasions for the sole purpose of renovating, for the purpose of knocking down my walls because I haven't had the courage or strength to do it myself. Unlike Simon & Garfunkel I am not okay being an island...and truth be told I don't think they really are either. We are created for relationship and community, nobody can be a rock or an island and feel nothing. We all feel something and we all need others.
Got walls? Ask God for a hurricane! :)
Hurricane
I Am A Rock (Simon & Garfunkel)
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