Saturday, October 18, 2008

Dieser Weg (This Path)

Okay, I really should be doing homework or sleeping right now, but I don't care. I have had a horribly disorganized week. I don't understand what's up with me recently. It's crazy. I have had a scatter-brain for this entire week, and I hate it. My organized persona, or Beaver, is going insane wondering why I can't seem to get back into the swing of things. My party persona, or Otter, is having fun and enjoying herself so much and becoming really close to friends. But this is not helping me get anything done. I have missed so many homework assignments this week and part of me doesn't care at all.
So, this awesome German song has been stuck in my head ALL week as well, and it has been helpful in thinking about life.
Here are the German lyrics:

also ging ich diese strasse lang und die strasse führte zu mir. das lied das du am letzten abend sangst, spielte nun in mir. noch ein paar schritte und dann war ich da, mit dem schlüssel zu dieser tür.
Refrain: dieser weg wird kein leichter sein, dieser weg wird steinig und schwer. Weg nicht mit vielen wirst du dir einig sein, doch dieses leben bietet soviel mehr. es war nur ein kleiner augenblick, einen moment war ich nicht da, danach ging ich einen kleinen schritt, und dann wurde es mir klar.
Refrain: dieser weg wird kein leichter sein, dieser weg wird steinig und schwer. nicht mit vielen wirst du dir einig sein, doch dieses leben bietet soviel mehr.
Liedertexte: manche treten dich, manche lieben dich, manche geben sich für dich auf.
Liedertext: manche segnen dich, setz dein segel nicht, wenn der wind das meer aufbraust. Alle manche treten dich, manche lieben dich, manche geben sich für dich auf. manche segnen dich, setz dein segel nicht, wenn der wind das meer aufbraust.
Refrain: dieser weg wird kein leichter sein, dieser weg wird steinig und schwer. Dieser nicht mit vielen wirst du dir einig sein, doch dieses leben bietet soviel mehr. Weg
Refrain 2x dieser weg, - dieser weg, ist steinig und schwer. nicht mit vielen wirst du dir einig sein, doch dieses leben bietet soviel mehr.


Okay, you look at this and almost all of you are saying, "And this means what?"
So, that's how my life feels sometimes. I'm looking at it and I have no clue how it translates, but I know somewhere in Someone's hands is the translation. I may not have the answer, but I know Someone who does.

Here are the English words:

This path So I went along this road.And the road led to me... Read More.The song that you sung on the last evening,was now playing in meJust a few steps and then I was thereWith the key to this door.Chorus: This path won’t be easy.This path will be stony and difficult.You won’t find many agreeing with you.But this life offers so much more.It was just a small moment.For a moment, I was not there.Then I went a small step.And then it became clear to me.
ChorusSome people kick you.Some people love you.Some give themselves up for you.Some people bless you. Don’t set your sails,When the wind stirs the sea.

See, that's much better, but doesn't part of you want to try to translate the text above? Aren't you curious? Like a puzzle that will be extremely beautiful once it's finished you begin to see the big picture. But the only way that can happen is for you to TRY to translate the foreign text.
I'm still learning what that means, but "not that I have already obtained it, or have already become perfect, but I press on in order that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:12-14

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