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about

The other day, a friend of mine shared a thought along these lines: Your train is just about to pull out of the station, and you are running along the platform trying to catch it before it goes. In your haste, you barge straight into a guy going the other way. He is in your way. Now there’s an arrogant thought: He is in my way! What makes my way any more important than his?

Don Miller puts it eloquently in his book Blue Like Jazz, where he describes coming to the sudden earth-shattering realisation that “everybody is I”. It’s also nicely put in downhere’s excellent song The Problem:

“Everybody's wondering how the world could get this way
If God is good, and how it could be filled with so much pain
It's not the age-old mystery we made it out to be
Yeah, there's a problem with the world
And the problem with the world is me”

My friend went on to ask what it would look like if we went around with the attitude that everyone else’s way was more important than our own - maybe we wouldn’t get where we were going very fast!

I wonder if climate-change-denial will ever be put on the same level as holocaust-denial? Surely it’s an equally bad level of humanity-caused destruction? - just more insidious and with many more to blame. Including me.

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Who is my neighbour? - you're so far away
It's hard to admit it - I'd never say it to your face
I'll kill for my convenience, it's not your fault you're in my way
Your life for my lifestyle - that seems a perfect trade

But what if this isn't mine to give?
And what if this isn't mine to spend?
And what if this isn't mine to withhold from someone who needs it more?

The Earth is the Lord's and everything in it
When did that cease to be true?
The Earth is the Lord's and everything in it
All that I have comes from you

When do trees have higher value? - when they're standing or when they're felled:
A habitat for creatures or a set of flat-pack shelves
Filled with mementoes of tragic islands now sleeping under waves
Raised to anger by jets we rode there

But what if this isn't yours to take?
And what if this isn't yours to keep?
And what if this isn't yours to use for your comforts and your war?

And we plumb the depths of oceans
And we blow the tops off mountains
A smash and grab raid on the hands of the provider
We hold the world to ransom shouting "stand and deliver!"

The Earth is the Lord's and everything in it
When did that cease to be true?
The Earth is the Lord's and everything in it
All that I have comes from you

The Earth is the Lord's and everything in it
It's good to know where you kneel
The Earth is the Lord's and everything in it
How long till you return, restore and renew?

I'm buying into the commonly held notion
That all is mine to cherish or destroy
This ownership delusion has a stubborn grip on me
Can I be made to realign my thinking?
How can I bend my will into a shape more pleasing
And loosen my stranglehold?

credits

from Also, He Made the Stars​.​.​., released October 24, 2009
lyrics & music © 2009 Jo Wilson

with Lorna Maciver, Iain McIntyre and Jack Wilson on backing vocals

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