Meditation of my Heart
Being around college guys in the ME school has had positive and negative influences on me. For some reason, the people here are so much more foul and crude than students at the community college I left two yeas ago. Here, I try to associate more closely with people I can be comfortable conversing with, but the rest are inescapable. Recently I have caught myself thinking things I wouldn’t have two years ago. Keeping my mind pure and positive is an increasingly difficult challenge.
On Wednesday it came to a point, I said a silent prayer and resolved to change. The next day I had a song repeating in my mind. I had forgotten about my resolve, the only thing that cropped up in my mind yesterday was this little tune from a Marley song. I sang it in my head all day, or quietly as one does while walking through an empty hallway or in the car, without thinking about it at all. it wasn’t until last night probably in the early hours of this morning as I was doing homework at the kitchen table and mouthing the words to the song, that I stopped what I was doing and recognized what was going on. I had been singing it mindlessly all day but I stopped and thought about the words for the first time, I was shocked.
“Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart be acceptible in thy sight, oh Verai!”
Bob Marley - By The Rivers of Babylon
It took the group effort of God and Bob Marley to get this verse from Psalm 19 into my head. What a blessing! It reminded me immediately of the “Footprints in the Sand” story. I didn’t know God was helping me all day, but he truly was. I remembered that God is mindful of me and my little daily challenges. Also that I am not left on my own in the struggle to progress in purity and all else. Prayers are answered and anyone can call upon God to add strength to their efforts.
I started listening to Regae on my mission in Baltimore. I had a companion who insisted and I came to like it a lot. A lot of current regae offerings are more like crap I mean rap. But the old-school stuff is almost all spiritual in nature, or political. Anyway, I like it. Matisyahu is a relatively new face in the scene of traditional style regae. I like him, too.
March 11th, 2009 at 1:13 am
Marley does have some prophetic qualities to his work. It’s cool that he was able to sing about philosophical/religious/spiritual/political stuff and still reach a relatively wide audience.