EASTER Video #2 Sunday "Ordinary Love" U2

"Ordinary Love" U2

The sea wants to kiss the golden shore

The sunlight warms your skin

All the beauty that's been lost before

Wants to find us again

I can't fight you anymore

It's you I'm fighting for

The sea throws rocks together

But time leaves us polished stones

We can't fall any further

If we can't feel ordinary love

And we cannot reach any higher

If we can't deal with ordinary love

Birds fly high in the summer sky

And rest on the breeze

The same wind will take care of you and I

We'll build our house in the trees

Your heart is on my sleeve

Did you put it there with a magic marker?

For years I would believe

That the world couldn't wash it away

'Cause we can't fall any further

If we can't feel ordinary love

And we cannot reach any higher

If we can't deal with ordinary love

Are we tough enough

For ordinary love

We can't fall any further

If we can't feel ordinary love

And we cannot reach any higher

If we can't deal with ordinary love

We can't fall any further

If we can't feel ordinary love

And we cannot reach any higher

If we can't deal with ordinary love

   This song is a love story, a story of a relationship interrupted by history, by events and calling, by what is right but costly. Those things propelled two peoples lives in different directions and revealed the cost of standing for what you believe in... it's mood and sentiment remind me of the call to love our neighbour as ourselves, usually at a cost to us...

   

Today I will be talking about and reflecting on the words of Robert McAfee Brown,

“where you stand, will determine what you see” and;

“whom you stand with will determine what you hear and;

“what you see and hear will determine what you say and how you act”

Others I know would say our task is followers is to figure out where we locate ourselves in relation to the story

It's as open as where people locate themselves in relation to apartheid, South Africa and Mandela

In this case though it's an entirely different invitation to listen, to see, to know and to act on the values of God as exampled through Jesus Christ... whose stories will inspire that in you and your community? Who would tun back to town and tell of what they have seen and heard... surprising people in this age I figure...