What if God was one of us?
suddenly got hit by the downloading bug & went on a downloading spree, with bits & traces of old songs playing in my head and me desperately trying to connect a string of words to make a proper sentence from the song & hopefully able to find it online for download.
i remember the song from
Joan Osborne was from Now 8 i think, & it was during those years when CDs were a lux & casettes were all we had, and this particular tape was a favourite in daddy's car back then, played during almost all car rides. it was the second last song on side B, a song that daddy forbade us to play because it brought in the issues of God & questions of his existence that we yearn to ask but never dared to, it'd just be a rhetorical question with an expected answer.
how protected was i back then, how we're all born into this certain context of thinking & never meant to venture out of the boundaries, seeking answers to forbidden questions.
like that lady
Joy i think, from Malaysia, who dared to publicly denounce her faith for Islam & step into Christianity, stirring up a wide & uproaring controversy/conflict between the conservative & the modern; between Islam & Christianity; between free thought & rules that've been set.
i think she should be given her way, isn't Islam about understanding? yes, advise her they must, try to lead her back into whichever path she was born into. but force is what they shouldn't, if she's not sincere in continuing her original faith, there'd be no point in it. it'd be a forced torture for her, per se, & that'd make no difference to her being a muslim or a christian because she's stuck between the two.
has someone ever asked you, "
why are you in the religion that you're in now? is it because you were born into it, or you chose it? do you know WHY you're following it?"
i still haven't found the right answer to it, just yet.
What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
Just trying to make his way home
Like a holy Rolling Stone
Back up to Heaven all alone
Just trying to make his way home
Nobody callin' on the phone
'cept for the Pope maybe in Rome.
btw, whoever has
Meatloaf's
"I'd Lie For You (& That's The Truth)" from his '95 album
Welcome To The Neighbourhood, please please
please send it to me, i've been searching for this song for months. it was the last song on Now 8.
i'm thinking of renting movies & spend some alone time at a corner of starbucks with a hot latte or cappucinno, & watching them from morning till evening. but after i get all my tutorials/assignments/planning for projects/ICAs outta the way.
have a delish day ahead :)
xxx.
