Monday, 12 May 2008

• Currently Listening Beauty from Pain 1.1 "Beauty From Pain" see related

  I Cling to Your Promise There Will a Dawn

  "We won't judge you; this is a safe space."

  A friend made this comment, somewhat jokingly in response to my need to justify a particular food choice.

  As I sat eating my BLT (less the "L" and the "T") with cheddar cheese on buttered sourdough bread, I realized that is what true friendship is all about.

  After an afternoon with the girls and an evening of studying at the library I returned to my campus residential space and thought about my friends, near and far, new and old, when it occurred to me that the friends with whom I feel most comfortable, around whom I am most "me" are those who make me feel safe. These friendships are built over a deep chasm filled with trust and truth, not falsehood and superficiality.

  Everyone has relationships that always leave you wanting more. After you've spent some quantity time with those people, you wonder what happened to the quality?

  The night before I returned home from school I lay on my friends' couch, tired, beaten up, and worn down. One friend patted my head, another looked on me with genuinely sympathetic eyes. I rose, weary and make-upless and knew that wherever my friends and family are, that's where my home is.

  Now I am literally home and at a sudden loss for words. I guess right now I just beseech your prayers and thank you in advance for your support.

  Blessed With a God Who is Faithful,
  Aisha
  

  "Beauty From Pain"
  by Superchic[k]
  
  "The lights go out all around me
  One last candle to keep out the night
  Then the darkness surrounds me
  I know I'm alive
  But I feel like I've died
  
  And all that's left is to accept that it's over
  My dreams ran like sand through the fists that I made
  I try to keep warm but I just grow colder
  I feel like I'm slipping away
  
  ::CHORUS::
  After all this has passed
  I still will remain
  After I've cried my last
  There'll be beauty from pain
  Though it won't be today
  Someday I'll hope again
  And there'll be beauty from pain
  You will bring beauty from my pain
  
  My whole world is the pain inside me
  The best I can do is just get through the day
  When life before is only a memory
  I wonder why God let me walk through this place
  
  And though I can't understand why this happened
  I know that I will when I look back someday
  And see how You've brought beauty from ashes
  And made me as gold purified through these flames
  
  ::CHORUS::
  
  [Bridge]
  Here and I am at the end of me (at the end of me)
  Trying to hold to what I can't see
  I forgot how to hope
  This night's been so long
  I cling to Your promise there will be a dawn
  
  ::CHORUS::"
  

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