Title: Some where in the middle
Album: Alter and the door
Artist: Casting Crowns
Frontman Mark Hall wrote the lyrics for this song after a disheartening afternoon of reading through the MySpace pages of the kids in his church youth group. Prompted to go there by a student, Hall was upset that the messages they wrote didn't gel with the teachings they were getting at church. The Casting Crowns explained on his record label's website: "Seeing the antithesis of what was being proclaimed at church and what was really going on with my kids didn't make me angry or frustrated. It just made me hurt for them and how stuck out there they feel and how they don't know what else to do but to try to fit in. It wasn't just about them. The end result in that lyric is my own lament that I could have a greater friendship with God, but I don't? It's the frustration of my own life. Why in the world do I have to force myself to spend time with God. If I had an everyday friendship with Jesus, I'd be a better encourager, I'd be a better forgiver, and I wouldn't be as selfish as I am. God has blessed me with amazing self-awareness, a firm grasp of the obvious, but I don't always 'get' it."
This song takes on so much more meaning to me each time I hear it...At first it meant something I tired to get across to my 13yr old daughter with how our relationship was with our situation is compared to how I was trying to compare how what we go thru trying to have a relationship with Christ in the world...Now I see it as how I cant control my relationship with her and those circumstances were in as much as I want to...Only God can intervene on our behalf...I have to give Him total control...
Kel201221 1 week ago
I love this song !!!
liscandida 2 years ago