I CBA to write more interpretations of the rest of the song, but I could leave you guys to that :) "He said too much" but he "hasn't said enough" - he's telling his mates and friends more than he should say about his feelings for this person, but not the person herself. He obsesses over the person, constantly watching them - he can't think of anything else but this person, and he feels "lost" and "blinded" when not knowing what she's doing or who she's with. Here he pours his heart out to a greater extent. He's behind the game, in the spotlight, failng. Basically these verses mean that he is getting angry and frustrated trying to stay ahead of the game and keep up with the competition over this woman. "Losing my religion" is a southern American way of saying "reaching the end of one's rope" or "losing your temper" or "losing your civility". Constantly following someone around, clinging to them, trying to make them connect with you or notice you. He is trying to push her out of his mind. Here he is trying to convince himself that the person he loves is NOT larger than life - she doesn't have to be the centre point of his existence. It is quite a sad song, and a has a very lonely feeling to it. (the person recounting this song loves somebody, who has no interest in him). The meaning of this song (officially, according to Mike Stipe of REM) is about unrequited love, meaning unreturned love. It’s not an option it’s a necessity.That was just a dream, just a dream, just a dream ![]() It should be something we do regularly because we have to if we want to keep our spiritual life in good health. Likewise, reading our Bibles shouldn’t be something that we do only when we have time. The word spirit comes from the Latin word “spiritus,” which literally means “breath.” Prayer is the breath of our spiritual life. When we pray, God’s Spirit begins to work in us. Prayer is to the spiritual life what breathing is to the physical life. It’s not a way we gain God’s favor or love-we already have that through what Jesus has done for us-but it’s a way we keep a strong relationship with Him. Similarly, reading the Bible-even just one verse-and praying even when we aren’t “feeling it” is imperative if we want to continue growing in our relationship with God. The point is you are continuing to make progress. It could be as little as one additional word. True writers write even when they don’t feel like it. But taking a day off could easily lead to two days off, then a week and the next thing you know it’s been months since you’ve added anything to your story. Some days you might feel that the ideas just aren’t coming to you or that you need a break after weeks of writing non-stop. ![]() You have to keep working just as hard to maintain it.įor instance, say you are writing a book. Just because you’ve achieved your desired body type doesn’t mean you can stop working out and expect your body to remain that way forever. The real challenge is keeping that weight off. When it comes to working out, the difficult part isn’t losing weight. People who have lost vast amounts of weight will be the first to tell you the hardships of remaining disciplined. Rather than trying to keep up our spiritual high, we need to keep up with the basic fundamentals of connecting with God: reading our Bibles and praying. A disciple is a follower of Christ and to have discipline means to possess the self-control needed to obey Him. When we accept Jesus as our personal Lord and Saviour we are to become His disciples. It’s no coincidence that discipline and disciple have the same root. Instead of always waiting for that next spiritual high or mountain-top experience, maybe we ought to experience God more regularly in our everyday lives. God isn’t some cheap Wifi hotspot whose signal we mysteriously lose from time to time. ![]() We can’t base our relationship with God on some wavering feeling or connection. They are generated from the heart and the heart is deceitful (Jeremiah 17:9). ![]() Ephesians 2:8 reminds us that our salvation comes through faith, not feelings.
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