in the SON

I often feel that secular popular music has much to say that can be related to our journey. Many songs get me thinking about issues of how we reach out to people in our communities. The language we use, the way we behave etc., and I have used words from Coldplay and others in these pages before. Elton John’s single ‘The Bridge’ has been getting a lot of air time recently. Listening to the words I’ve been struck by the questions they pose, which seem to have a real application to what we are called to do as followers of Jesus, but which we quite often fail at.

I’ve seen the bridge and the bridge is long
…………………………………………………………………..
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Long enough to leave some of us behind

chorus:
And every one of us has to face that day
Do you cross the bridge or do you fade away
And every one of us that ever came to play
Has to cross the bridge or fade away.

Jesus is our bridge to the Father but not only do we have to accept him to cross over, we are also called to be his disciples and actively create bridges out into the community. But it can be a long hard and risky business.

Do we take the risk and cross the bridge, or do we settle for the easy life, fade away and get left behind?

To mix posts with more secular song lyrics (see currently listening, on my previous post), I hope we, “don’t settle for the path of least resistance - I Hope You (We) Dance” across the bridges!

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