Bonnie Raitt wrote a marvelous song that has remained one of my favorite songs of all times, I Can't Make You Love Me. It is a great R&B song with such sad yet honest lyrics....
Turn down the lights, turn down the bed
Turn down these voices inside my head
Lay down with me, tell me no lies
Just hold me close, don't patronize - don't patronize me
Chorus:
Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark, in these lonely hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't
'cause I can't make you love me, if you don't
I'll close my eyes, then I won't see
The love you don't feel when you're holding me
Morning will come and I'll do what's right
Just give me till then to give up this fight
And I will give up this fight
Chorus:
Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark, in these lonely hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't
'cause I can't make you love me, if you don't
I was hanging with a good friend last night and we got to talking about classic songs, classic times in our lives, and classic pain...
So today, I popped this song on after some contemplation of stuff going on in my life, or rather, stuff NOT going on in my life. Things lost, gained, changed, and coming forth.
I find it fun to look (hear) how the secular world talks of love and great things like that.
So, what if this song was from God to His bride--the Church? Our freewill can cause us to chose not to love Him. Our freewill can supersede His will and intentions for us...it has happened before. Our freewill can cause us to act like we are near Him and yet all we are really doing is patronizing Him.
Sure, this is not the perfect song to talk about the loss of our First Love...yet, pretty much has got me thinking about the times I got my mind and priorities all screwed up... missed the mark and pulled away from the God who loves me...yet, I have chosen at times to withhold from Him, love.
I'm in a place right now, that when I think of His love for me, I want to sing Natalie Merchant's, Kind and Generous to God:
La-La-La-La-La...
You've been so kind and generous, I don't know how you keep on giving
For your kindness I'm in debt to you
For your selflessness, my admiration
For everything you've done, you know I'm bound,
I'm bound to thank you for it....
La-La-La-La-La...
Hey-hey-hey-hey-hey...
You've been so kind and generous, I don't know how you keep on giving
For your kindness I'm in debt to you
And I never could have come this far without you
For everything you've done, you know I'm bound,
I'm bound to thank you for it....
La-La-La-La-La...
Oh,
I want to thank you for so many gifts you gave, the love and tenderness,
I wanna thank you
I want to thank you for your generosity,
the love and the honesty that you gave me
I want to thank you, show my gratitude, my love and my respect for you,
I wanna thank you
Oh I want to thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you
So, now here's the challenge...what song do you think of about Your love for God and what song do you think of about His love for you?
(No you can't use Christian songs for either question...unless you come up blank)
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Okay, I thought a lot about this and had a really hard time coming up with a song. If it counts, "Standing Outside the Fire" by Garth Brooks is one of favorite non-Christian Christian songs.
We call them cool
Those hearts that have no scars to show
The ones that never do let go
And risk it the tables being turned
We call them fools
Who have to dance within the flame
Who chance the sorrow and the shame
That always come with getting burned
But you got to be tough when consumed by desire
'Cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire
We call them strong
Those who can face this world alone
Who seem to get by on their own
Those who will never take the fall
We call them weak
Who are unable to resist
The slightest chance love might exist
And for that forsake it all
They're so hell bent on giving, walking a wire
Convinced it's not living if you stand outside the fire
Chorus:
Standing outside the fire
Standing outside the fire
Life is not tried it is merely survived
If you're standing outside the fire
There's this love that is burning
Deep in my soul
Constantly yearning to get out of control
Wanting to fly higher and higher
I can't abide standing outside the fire
I was just listening to this song and it felt like it was mirroring my surrender of my life to God:
Sweet Surrender by Sarah McLachlan
it doesn't mean much
it doesn't mean anything at all
the life I've left behind me
is a cold room
I've crossed the last line
from where I can't return
where every step I took in faith
betrayed me
and led me from my home
and sweet
sweet surrender
is all that I have to give
you take me in
no questions asked
you strip away the ugliness
that surrounds me
are you an angel
am I already that gone
I only hope
that I won't disappoint you
when I'm down here
on my knees
and sweet
sweet
sweet surrender
is all that I have to give
sweet
sweet
sweet surrender
is all that I have to give
and I don't understand
by the touch of your hand
I would be the one to fall
I miss the little things
oh I miss everything
it doesn't mean much
it doesn't mean anything at all
the life I left behind me
is a cold room
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