More quotes

I was looking through my old songs from my singing days. I found one that I just love. The words are so beautiful. Truth be told, I don't quite get them, but I like the song anyway.

Sure on this shining night
Of star made shadows round
Kindness must watch for me this side the ground.
The late year lies down the north.
All is healed,
All is health.
High summer holds the earth.
Hearts all whole.
Sure on this shining night
I weep for wonder wand'ring far alone
Of shadows on the stars.

A thought (not an original one, I'm afraid)

I am reading this great book right now called Blue Like Jazz. I would like to share a quote with you all.

Only one more thing that bugged me, then I will shut up about it. War metaphor. The churches I attended would embrace war metaphor. They would talk about how we are in a battle, and I agreed with them, only they wouldn't clarify that we were battling poverty and hate and injustice and pride and the powers of darkness. They left us thinking that our war was against liberals and homosexuals. Their teaching would have me believe I was the good person in the world and the liberals were the bad people in the world. Jesus taught that we are all bad and He is good, and He wants to rescue us because there is a war going on and we are hostages in that war. The truth is we are supposed to love the hippies, the liberals, and even the Democrats, and that God wants us to think of them as more important than ourselves. Anything short of this is not true to the teachings of Jesus.

Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz, Thomas Nelson Publishers:2003,(132).
(am I missing school? gotta give credit where credit is due!)