Laugh, Love, Live Free and Sing

At youth group yesterday we had some good discussion and thoughts on destiny and dreams. Makes me think about that a little bit more than usual. It's just so mind warping about how the universe and destiny comes together. It is God that has instilled my dreams and all my hopes and desires in me. Yet sometimes, things don't go how I want them to go. Is it that my vision for myself is getting clouded? Is it that I'm losing sight of the prize? Or is it merely the fact that there's something better out there for me and my attempts to get what I think I want is just not it.

There's a way to pursue happiness I guess. I won't find it in the first boy I see, no matter how good looking. I won't find it in the best computer on earth, even if I can do everything on it. It's not in the best guitar ever, no matter how great the sound. It's in my life.

A wise saying I heard went "Love how you live, but live for your love" There's so many things in this world that I love, singing, graphics, guitars, and so much else. Those are good pacifiers, but there's more, Jesus. I just want to be so much more in love with him than everything else.

Looking up at the post title, it's from "Paper Thin Hymn" by Anberlin. It just really stuck out to me. He's in a situation where the one he loves is gone and he's saying that he's still going to live no matter the storms of his life. Beautiful song, he's all alone with only the violins in his head to keep him company, deep, meaningful, and so much better than the trash, drugs, and sex they keep trying to sell to us on more mainstream music.