Some Things Must Die

Some time in 2005 as I was counting up all the songs I had written and guarded and nourished over the years, I finally faced up to the realisation that many of my songs were never going to be used beyond the bedroom where I had created them. All that time I had been fiddling with them, dreaming about them, hearing the bands playing them. I accepted that many would just die a quiet death. It was such a pointed realisation that I decided to write another song about it! I called it "Some things must die". I guess that's a little haunting as a song title, and I'm pretty sure that song will also never get out of the bedroom where it was written! Nevertheless, it's true. I've learnt more and more in my last few months that in so many situations you just have to learn to "die". It comes when you're being treated unfairly and there is no reasonable action against it. It comes as the best means to solve many arguments. It comes as you learn to prioritise your life and go for max. And as importantly it comes when you learn to fight sin and to deny the flesh. In no example do we see it more clearly than in Jesus' death on the cross, and in Paul's motto: to live is Christ, to die is gain.