Minstrels in the Gallery – If You Want to Get Free

Greetings Dear Reader,

I know that most of our culture has forgotten the concept of holy ground.  I also realize that to me any place can be sacred if my heart is focused on Christ.  Since it is truth that God loves everyone and wants them to know him, anywhere that I properly represent Christ becomes sacred ground.

It is in the going through my day showing others the love and kindness Christ wishes me to that I can create a path of sacred ground for those who have not found the freedom that is in Christ. 

It is not my place to judge and condemn others.  Rather I am to see every situation and circumstance as an opportunity for me to follow Christ more closely.  When I get distracted by the things that would lure me away from that it is I that defile the sacred ground I am charged to create.

There are so many distractions from the life I am charged to lead.  I must assure that I follow Christ in everything.  For me that is where the true freedom lies.  This song plays over and over in my head when I forget this truth.

If You Want to get Free – Waterdeep

In the gas station bathroom by the condom machine

I heard the word of the Lord

He said "Take off your shoes, this is holy ground too

You know I came for the sick and the bored."

Beneath the selling of beers

And the welling up of tears

Out beyond the beam of the remote control

There's a whispering voice

That the humble ear ears

that says "I am still waiting for you to ask just to be made whole."

And the bush it was burning on the mountain top

And though the leaves never blackened, the fire didn't stop

That's the way that it works in this old life of sin

You gotta let the fire burn you just to get clean within

I am so often deterred from my actual intent

by distractions in a cellophane wrap

And the cruel voice that taunts me when I open them up

to find just one more box full of crap

It's where you're mocked while you abstain

and then cursed when you give in

It's all a game that's impossible to beat

But there's a peaceful refrain God'll sing in your brain

when you put the nails to your hands and your feet

And the smell of our sacrifices

still fills up my head

There's just a few left at the altar, Lord

all the rest of them fled

And we've cried and we've tried

We've sweat and we've bled

But we don't just need atonement

We need to be raised from the dead

When they took down the cross from that dark hillside

The blood on their hands was the blood from his side

That's the way that it works, That's the way it must be.

You gotta let His blood stain you of you want to get free

If you want to get free

Don't you want to get free?

I think you want to be free.

Wishing you joy in the journey,

Aramis Thorn

Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store."