Freedom Is About Living Free
Date: Jan 5th, 2005 3:51:07 am - Subscribe
Mood: crafty
How could you stay so stagnant
You said you’ve learned the truth
Yet you live your life in bondage
To utter fear and guilt
If the truth shall set us free
You said so yourself
Then why does you soul shiver
Like a death row convict?
Why won’t you look beyond this cheap trick
Of the legalistic scribes and pharisees
That still follow the Levitical creeds
We’re above the law because we’re under grace
Walk not in slavery step into the light
Its not the rituals and traditional cannons
That set you apart for life everlasting
Its the grace of God that makes us heirs to his kingdom
Why won’t you look beyond this cheap trick
Of the legalistic scribes and pharisees
That still follow the Levitical creeds
We’re above the law because we’re under grace
Its not a talk of religion or of denomination
Its not about Mary and the Pope who’s in Rome
Its not about being good or being sincere
Its not a point system and we could be sincerely wrong
Its all about having a relationship
With the Father in Heaven
By claiming the victory of His only Son
Who died for our sins and rose up on that great Sunday
Why won’t you look beyond this cheap trick
Of the legalistic scribes and pharisees
That still follow the Levitical creeds
We’re above the law because we’re under grace
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A Childlike Response To The Nearness Of You
Date: Jan 4th, 2005 12:20:35 am - Subscribe
Mood: astounded
We stood face to face
But I can't see you
Look the same way
As you stared down
Awkward attraction
A case of infatuation
A melodramatic feeling
Of love and affection
I can't speak the words
That I long to say to you
My mind always splits in two
Everytime I look at you
Maybe this is love
Or am I just strung out
With a chlidlkie respones
To the nearness of you
You look so beautiful
And I look stupid
With my stupid hair
And my rundown clothes
Side-winded love songs
And basement poetry
Are all I can give
In thought and in theory
I can't speak the words
That I long to say to you
My mind always splits in two
Everytime I look at you
Maybe this is love
Or am I just strung out
With a chlidlkie respones
To the nearness of you
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As I Look Forward
Date: Jan 3rd, 2005 11:38:05 pm - Subscribe
Mood: gleeful
Seeing as to how you
Smile and say nice things to me
I wish that I could try not
To act like a drug addict
Or a child that's been caught
Doing something bad behind your back
But I guess the way I act like that
Is the stuff that brings humor
To our relationship
You and I complementing each other
Like birds of the same feather
And I wish that I could make up
For all the times I've let you down
When I couldn't keep my word
At times when I say "promise"
"Cross my heart and hope to die"
And I look forward to a day
When I'll be able to hire
F16 jet planes just to write your name
Above the blue skies
Saying I love you
And I hope I've made your dreams come true
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What on Earth is M35B Anyway?
Date: Jan 3rd, 2005 9:51:29 pm - Subscribe
Mood: enthusiastic
M35B has just gotten around emoblog just a while ago and I am not sure how many of you are wondering what it is about.
For starters it is an address, you see this is the address of our house down on Teacher's Village where I experienced many of the fondest moments in my life, it is Malingap Street, 35-B the place where I grew up and shared my life with the people I grew up with. Where I have seen my brothers one by one leave the house to part ways and establish families of their own. Where I played with my nephew, (Gato and now Arno, Ciro, Gabriel, Julian and Linus), my niece Lea Grace, my dog (Odie) and occasionally my cousins, (Kuya Joey and Ate Yayi.) The place where in the idea of forming a band came into order, when I first learned my first chord progression of guitar chords. Where I've had countless conversations about anything and everything with my father. Where spent the afternoon with my mother picking fleas from our dog's infested back. When I first received that life-changing phone from Jeanie and most importantly where I prayed to accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior.
M35B is also a relic, in the sense that it is merely a venue for the comings and goings of events that have in their own way contributed to the person that I am today. And to think that there are people in my family who are quietly scheming to sell this 'priceless' relic for money makes me shudder enough to write these lines from The Little Prince, all over my room:
"Whether it's a house, the stars or the dessert; what makes their beauty is invisible."
As a silent sign of protest to what might happen to such a rich treasure of memories that could only be found here in the heart of M35B. And that this blog was subliminally birthed out of the fact that the beautiful blue apartment in front of our house is has now been demolished and that it is my perpetual wish to spend my dying days in this richly laden box of joys and pains.
Another is that it is a band aptly called M35B which was basically the name thought off since it is the greatest common denominator for the music that I have come to play with Laixander Naguit, Cedric Buenviaje and Jarme Mondragon. It is the band that was to play the soundtrack of our lives and the anthem of our anxieties during our phase nihilistic teenage rebellion.
And lastly M35B is about me manifesting my hopes struggles and victories in this miniscule space in the World Wide Web, screaming at the nothingness and pondering the meaning of life in light of Biblical scripture, practical experiences, and cultural preferences.
It is my personal Book of Eccleciastes where I would start out with the pondering of the meaningless of it all and where I would end it with the exhortation to, "remember our Creator in the days of our youth." So as to voice out a positive statement to live our lives fully in light of God's grace and gift of salvation but also of encouragement to make something out of our lives while we still can because truly life is for us to live.
So if I were to ask you what M35B means to you I guess you'd better hasten my tongue and ask yourself whether you still find time to look into your own personal M35B.
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