Sons and Daughters

I listened to a song this morning called "Sons and Daughters" by The Decemberists, (link to song at bottom) and the lyrics speak of this legion of children who are departing their war torn land and setting sail for something new, something safe. Something free.

When we arrive, Sons & daughters
We'll make our homes on the water
We'll build our walls aluminum
We'll fill our mouths with cinnamon now

These currents pull us 'cross the border
Steady your boats, Arms to shoulder
'till tides are pulled, Hold our grounds
Making this cold harbor now home

Take up your arm, Sons and daughters
We will arise from the bunkers
By land, by sea, by dirigible
We'll leave our tracks untraceable now

When we arrive, Sons and daughters
We'll make our lives on the water
We'll build our walls aluminum
We'll fill our mouths with cinnamon now

Here all the bombs fade away

This song really spoke to me as the content seems fitting for where I am in life. This need to leave or move on (physically and spiritually). As I thought more about leaving and moving on, I began to wonder where it is that I am going? The last line of the song says "Here, all the bombs fade away". "Here", it says. that means they arrived somewhere. They escaped the war, the war that was possibly waging for their lives, and settled somewhere; somewhere they felt safe and unanxious.  When they got there, they started to rebuild their lives, making houses and eating sweets. What does this mean for me?

For me, the problem is not to get something out of my system but to take something in that deepens and strengthens my sense of goodness and allows my anguish to be embraced by love. It's the personification of the goodness of God in me while dwelling in the land of the living-- rather than suffering in the war torn country of darkness that my heart has been in for such a long time.

I say all of this knowing that I will discover that the more love I can take in and hold on to, the less fearful I will become; of staying in that place of unknowing. I can speak more simply, more directly, and more freely about what is important to me, without fear of other people's reactions. 

And so, Sons and Daughters... The more you come to know yourself-- spirit, mind, and body-- as truly loved, the freer you will be not only to live in goodness, but to proclaim it. That is the freedom of the children of God. Will you join me? A brigade we will start, Sons and Daughters we are; called to goodness.

Link to the song:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5H8DwJI0uA