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prophet dave?

i see so many students and adults searching for meaning in things that leave them empty. but not you typical "empty", as in void. a deeper empty that creates a greater desire or even a greater need to find that empty space filled.

and so we chase after something else to fill the space. and it leaves us empty. so we search again. empty. and search. empty. on and on.

i see it in students who seek out sex. they seek out drugs and alcohol. the seek to hide from expectations. you fill in the blank.

adults are the same. we mask our search a little better. we still seek to fill the void with sex and drugs and the likes but we add to it. we seek it out in status... in money... in power... in family...

i struggle the same way.

when i listen to the song "grey street" by the dave matthews band i sometimes will cry. to me, this song captures the hopeless journey so many people are on to "fill the void".

i know we all are on the same journey. but i know that a journey without a relationship with Jesus is hopeless. without Jesus, the search relies on us. Jesus doesn't promise a rosy road. but He does promise His presence.

with His presence at my side in this journey of discovery... that is Hope.


here's the dmb song...


"Oh look at how she listens
She says nothing of what she thinks
She just goes stumbling through her memories
Staring out on to Grey Street
She thinks, "Hey,
How did I come to this?
I dream myself a thousand times around the world,
But I can't get out of this place"


There's an emptiness inside her
And she'd do anything to fill it in
But all the colors mix together - to grey
And it breaks her heart

How she wishes it was different
She prays to God most every night
And though she swears it doesn't listen
There's still a hope in her it might
She says, "I pray
But they fall on deaf ears,
Am I supposed to take it on myself?
To get out of this place"

There's a loneliness inside her
And she'd do anything to fill it in
And though it's red blood bleeding from her now
It feels like cold blue ice in her heart
When all the colors mix together - to grey
And it breaks her heart

There's a stranger speaks outside her door
Says take what you can from your dreams
Make them as real as anything
It'd take the work out of the courage
But she says, "Please
There's a crazy man that's creeping outside my door,
I live on the corner of Grey Street and the end of the world"

There's an emptiness inside her
And she'd do anything to fill it in
And though it's red blood bleeding from her now
It's more like cold blue ice in her heart
She feels like kicking out all the windows
And setting fire to this life
She could change everything about her using colors bold and bright
But all the colors mix together - to grey
And it breaks her heart
It breaks her heart

To grey"

posted by nathan sean @ Tuesday, August 30, 2005