The Closer I Am to Where The Streets Have No Name

So, because of recent conversations, blog posts (both by others and myself), and general observations, I started thinking of a couple of interesting things that put in tandem with each other have caused some delightful thoughts as well as challenging questions. I will share one thought at the end, but do not want to commentate (although I AM willing to conversate on any thoughts you might have) these things when placed in tandem.



Closer To Fine--Indigo Girls
I'm trying to tell you something about my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white
And the best thing you've ever done for me
Is to help me take my life less seriously
Its only life after all

Yeah Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
And lightness has a call that's hard to hear
I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it
I'm crawling on your shores

I went to the doctor,
I went to the mountains
I looked to the children,
I drank from the fountains
There's more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line
And the less I seek my source for some definitive(the less I seek my source)
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine

And I went to see the doctor of philosophy
With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
He never did marry or see a b-grade movie
He graded my performance, he said he could see through me
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind
Got my paper and I was free

I went to the doctor,
I went to the mountains
I looked to the children,
I drank from the fountains
There's more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive(the less I seek my source)
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine

I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m
.To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend
And I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
Twice as cloudy as Id been the night before
And I went in seeking clarity.

I went to the doctor,
I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I
drank from the fountains

Yeah we go to the doctor,
we go to the mountains
We look to the children,
we drink from the fountains
Yeah we go to the bible,
we go through the workout
We read up on revival
and we stand up for the lookout
There's more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive(the less I seek my source)
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine



Where The Streets have No Name--U2
I want to run
I want to hide
I want to tear down the walls
That hold me inside
I want to reach out
And touch the flame
Where the streets have no name

I want to feel,
sunlight on my face
See that dust cloud disappear
without a trace
I want to take shelter
from the poison rain
Where the streets have no name

Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building
Then burning down love,
burning down love
And when I go there
I go there with you...(its all I can do)

The cities a flood
And our love turns to rust
Were beaten and blown by the wind
Trampled into dust
Ill show you a place
High on the desert plain
Where the streets have no name

Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
Still building Then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there, I go there with you
(its all I can do)
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So... we've always sold God as the end of the search. When people are searching for something "bigger" or "answers" to the questions, we sell God as if He is the end of the quest. What if finding God is where the REAL seeking begins? Perhaps finding the Divine is simply putting a name or label on what we've always been (and always will be seeking): that greater/deeper understanding? When we advertise God as an end, and not a means we misrepresent the importance and reality of the journey of being spiritual. Finding God perhaps is not us on the quest reaching the finish line, but us on our quest finally making it to the starting line!

Your Thoughts?
On what I said?
On the songs in general?