Year 3 week 36
3rd – 9th September 2018
I have always loved music. Music can take you places and make you feel things that you wouldn’t necessarily feel unless you heard it.
Music for me can bring back memories whether good or bad. Lively music can make you want to exercise, soft music can make you fall asleep. It can cheer you up, inspire you, it can make you want to change. Music does so many different things to different people. A song that inspires one person may not inspire the next. I think a life without music would be boring. But, even though I love music, I have never really had a favourite band – I like a verity of styles.
A few months ago I went to a music festival in the south of England called the Big Church Day Out. I heard a band while I was there called For King and Country. They played a song that basically discribed my life – it was called Fix My Eyes.
It starts off by asking (my interpretation) if I was standing in front of a younger version of myself what would I do differently? I think on the journey that I have been on over the past few years that’s exactly what I have done. I have reassessed my life and tried to correct it accordingly. It’s just a shame I am not able to tell my younger-self.
The song then goes on to say:-
I’d love like I’m not scared, give when it’s not fare,
Live life for another, take time for your brother,
Fight for the weak ones, speak out for freedom,
Find faith in the battle, stand tall but above it all…
Fix my Eyes on you
Those words have got me through a lot this year. If it wasn’t for those words I would never have completed the half marathon in Kenya this year, it reminds me constantly why I do things.
The line ‘love like I’m not scared’ has meant a lot to me. I have been afraid of doing things in the past because of being scared. It’s hard but I am constantly having to overcome it.
The line ‘Finding faith in the battle’ is another one. It was faith in myself that got all that weight off in the first place and weight loss is a constant battle even years after losing it.
But the line that gets to me most is ‘fix my eyes on you’. It means to fix your eyes on God. It is something I like to think I do but very often in life we naturally try and do things in our own strength and forget to ask for Gods help. This song is my reminder that I need to continue to do it.
I have still got so many targets and goals that I want to achieve and the longer it takes to accomplish them the more my eyes turn away thinking they are so out of reach.
This song has been playing a lot lately reminding me that I need to keep fixing my eyes on my targets
For me having a goal and a target to aim for gives me hope. I just need to have faith in the battle because aiming for your targets are never easy. That’s why when they are accomplished it is so rewarding.
So I need to constantly remind myself to fix my eyes on my targets and especially God to achieve them. Maybe I should listen to the song a few more times.
Fix My Eyes by for King & Country
Gorgeous song. Thank you for sharing.