When I hear Scott Stapp's song "You will Soar" I think of something I love about being a father. I love to encourage my children; to challenge them to be who they're meant to be. It's an amazing call to invest your life into your children; correcting, empowering, modeling, teaching, and coaching.
Too often the role of the parent is misunderstood and neglected. What a shame...
Give it a listen:
http://www.scottstapp.com/music.html#
Here are the lyrics:
YOU WILL SOAR
If I had just one thing to say
Before my last breath fades away.
Keep your head way up in the clouds
And never let them get you down!
Never let them get you down!
Keep hoping and dreaming and you will soar!
With a little faith and love.
You will soar!
If I had just two words to say,
To explain my life away.
I could say ups and downs,
Because, I always kept my defense down.
Always kept my defense down!
Keep hoping and dreaming and you…will soar!
With a little faith and love.
You will soar!
I wish I could take you away
To a place of mystery
We will travel there on sands of time
To listen…to fairy tales
We will listen to fairy tales
We will listen, listen, listen
Keep hoping and dreaming and you…will soar
With a little faith and Love.
You will soar!
You will soar!
You will soar!
2 comments:
I agree. What a privilege. Glad to raise our kids together.
However, one of the flaws with this culture, we claim as ours, is that everyone is stroking the ego and wants of individuals and our children...be all that you can be...dream big!...hope and you will soar high...yet is that the way of God? What does God want for our children? How does one help the child receive the calling? John the Baptist said, I must decrease so that He would increase. Jesus said that the last should be first.
I am thankful for my parents, who did not stroke my ego, spent less time teaching me to live in the clouds but in the mudd of life gave me roots and equipped me for for the journey forward. To seek the healing of this world as a disciple of Christ, knowing that the task would be less than glamourous.
I belive we live in the most comfortable era parents have ever parented and yet the most complex when it comes to roots and equipping...
You said, investing as "correcting, empowering, modeling, teaching, and coaching". If 1000 people listen to the "pop wisdom" of the song it is hollow without the investment you speak of. If I am right, we should call foul. Pop Culture proves to be False Hope.
Do we exist to soar? or do we soar as part of why we exist?
Love you Dave! You are a good father, husband and friend. You are the 1 in 1000! Continue to swim against the tide, piercing darkness with light.
Ken, you're too right. It's like trying to live your life by an advertisement slogan. Remember Dallas Willard talked about that Oscar Myer song: "Oh I wish I were an Oscar Myer weiner..." What if you tried to organize your life around that?!
I also think of American Idol - how some of the people who really shouldn't be singing actually believe they're going to be the winner. They have friends who encourage them to do it - because they want to do it, not because they're good singers. Want is not enough.
So you're point is well taken. You speak of what's real - not in the clouds but in the mudd of life.
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