Here’s a song I wrote earlier this year, “Morning Light.”

It’s a song for people who keep holding on even when their world starts to cave in.

The bridge part, “known yet unknown, dying yet we live on,” is taken from 2 Corinthians 6:9. It describes the hellish experiences of the writer—and I think—some of us as well (whether literally or figuratively).

Lyrics:

I’ve been looking at you

Watching you fight these battles

It’s just like the sound of the night

I’m as silent as the stars can be

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And I wish I could tell you all of my secrets

And all the darkness that lingers in my heart

We’re all the same, waking up amidst a war

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Dying to meet the morning light

As we clash against the tides

Dying to meet the morning light

Somewhere beyond the stars we belong

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I wonder, just how far you’d go to find all the answers?

It’s just like the sound of the rain

I’m hearing our voices cry

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And I wish I could tell you all of my secrets

And all the darkness that lingers in my heart

We’re all the same, waking up amidst a war

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Dying to meet the morning light

As we clash against the tides

And in the wake of our fall, we rise again

Somewhere beyond the stars we belong

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Hear the sound of our voices against the tides

We’re all the same, yearning for the other side

Known yet unknown, dying yet we live on

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Dying to meet the morning light

As we clash against the tides

Dying to meet the morning light

Somewhere beyond the stars we belong

Jon Foreman on “Love” — “This one started with the guitar hook I came up with during sound-check; however, most of the song took shape in a hotel room in Australia. I was thinking about how love (not just lust or codependency that commonly flood the tunes on the airways) actually involves quite a bit of faith. There’s a lot of letting go involved. Two souls in love is an intricate dance of give and take. I can be a fairly solitary person from time to time. Sure, I love being with people, but I also need time alone. I guess I thrive on the poles. So this song is about the dance involved in a relationship the coming together and letting go. The song equates love with breathing- pulling in and releasing. Or a seed, for the seed to grow it has to be dropped and buried. 

In our barcode media, love is often portrayed as consumption. As consumers in a commercial driven culture we can begin to view other souls as objects, or potential cures for our deepest fears and insecurities. “Perhaps if I found the right lover I would no longer feel this deep existential despair.” But of course no human soul could be the Constant Other, the face that will never go away. Only the infinite can fill that role. But the silence can be deafening. It’s a fearful thing to be alone. Do you love me enough to let me go? “I can’t live without you”- “I would die if you ever left me”- These are not the songs of love, these are the songs of consumption.”

Do you have any idea… how much darkness lurks in your heart?

I remember a dream I had last year. It was the most horrifying dream I’ve EVER had. I was so frightened when I woke up that I went out of the room to catch my breath and pray.

No, it wasn’t a dream about monsters or spirits or ghosts or anything like that. It was something much… MUCH more terrifying. To describe the dream in detail would be uncomfortable for me to share, but the gist of it is: Us.

Most if not all of us automatically assume that we would never murder, rape, or steal billions of dollars in public office. But my question for you is;

How do you know?

Do you realize what we are capable of? What makes you think that anyone is immune to such temptations?

Another question; can you truly trust someone?

Just because you call someone your best friend; that means he/she doesn’t talk behind your back?

Just because he/she is a pastor; he/she wouldn’t do drugs?

Just because he/she is a family member, he/she wouldn’t steal from you? He/she won’t lie to you?

Won’t…….

…….kill you?

This is a heavy topic. And I’m sorry if I’m making you uncomfortable. But that’s what my dream was. And that’s what’s terrifying about it: it CAN happen. Because you see, that is the fallen nature of man. The fallen nature of “you.” The fallen nature of “me.”

Sometimes, when the Bible talks about the fallen nature, you think, “Oh sure, we have fallen, it’s probably not that bad. A few sins here and there but I can take it.”

Well those sins include the Holocaust, blowing up the Twin Towers, assassinating presidents, and many other horrifying things. THAT is the the fallen nature of man. It isn’t something you can just brush off and take lightly. EVERYONE is capable of such things. That includes me, that includes yourself. And how do you run away from yourself? You are that “man” the Bible talks about. You have fallen.

My friend, do you now know…..

…..how much we need a Savior?

You think Jesus died just for petty sins? He died for ALL our sins. He forgave every single one. From lying to a friend, to mass murder of children.

That, is called grace. None of us really deserved such forgiveness. But while we were still sinners, He died for us.

I’m posting this song that I recorded a few months back. It’s a cover. And it’s not a song about you or me. It’s about our Savior. Just him… and His beauty. We don’t deserve to be the center of anything.

I remember when I was a kid, I found it really disgusting to see someone vomit. In fact, when I would see someone do so, I would immediately feel like vomiting myself. Just hearing the sound, and seeing the nasty stuff that comes out, and not to mention—the foul smell, I would vomit right there and then also. Haha!

So it occurred to me that maybe everyone feels the same way about vomit. So I thought, “If one person vomits, the one standing right next to him would be disgusted and then he would vomit as well, and then when another person sees that, he would vomit too, and so on and so forth! It would trigger a chain reaction. Thus the whole world would eventually be covered in vomit!”

Thankfully that disaster never came to pass because as I grew up, I realized that there are some people who can bear with it.

But imagine though… if that DID come to pass… What a nightmare.

Sobrang na-bored ako kanina kaya nag-drawing nalang ako sa iPad ko. Haha. Random stuff.

:)

Found this from a website of music lovers :)

Hahahaha! Labo!

djlamar:

“I find the whole concept of being ‘sexy’ embarrassing and confusing. If I do an interview with photographs people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there’s the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that’s not me. I feel uncomfortable. I’d never go out in a mini-skirt. It’s nothing to do with protecting the Hermione image. I wouldn’t do that. Personally, I don’t actually think it’s even that sexy. What’s sexy about saying, ‘I’m here with my boobs out and a short skirt, have a look at everything I’ve got?’ My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder. - Emma Watson

NOW THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKIN BOUT!!!!! i hope she stays true to what she just said.. :)