Paloma (dove is spanish)

There is a song that every time I hear it I feel inspired and ready to run and do whatever needs to be done in order to find the way forward and change what needs changing in myself to grow, love and become what I am not today.  I go running to this song and feel like I could lift my arms and fly. I can sprint to this song for longer than I can to anything else.  It has a beat that keeps going steady and then picks up like life does sometimes and then slows, mimicing my own progress while always gaining in momentum and joy, picking up the good, leaving the bad.  My life seems to be like this amazing beat and the progress of this song, growing and gaining momentum finding greater and greater love everywhere I go. 

The words are beautiful.  The song is by Carbon Leaf called Paloma.  The copy that is on my blog is NOT a good copy of it, but it is the best on the site.  (I encourage you to find the recorded version.  It is well worth the time and cost!)

The whole song is more than the parts.  I think I could ponder for weeks on the truth inside this song and how as I grow and develop and become cleaner in my intetions, motives and love for others it becomes more beautiful.  As I listen to it I find myself understanding deeper and deeper truths about how fear and untruths keep me anchored to the ground when if I will seek truth and rid myselve of the misperceptions and false truths I have aquired through the years I will be free.  Flying and free. 
Again the quote from Pres. Uchtdorf in my last post is very applicable and as I listened today I found new truth contained in the words, music and spirit of this song that I didn't see or feel before. 

The thunder is what I fear when I start on the path that is my life and what I will have to face to change. There is something called homeostatis that the body seeks at all times.  Homeostasis keeps the body constant, steady, and moving.  This is a good thing except when the body wants to keep itself in an unhealthy place because it doesn't know or can't do any better.  I find that the intellect strives for homeostatis and is afraid of change, wanting to be constant with what it has known even if it can see more and better ahead of it.  I often fear the unknown and cling to the broken because it is familiar and I am in homeostasis. 

This song reminds me that I love the idea of running, chasing the high ground, not worrying about myself but loving others, couragously moving higher and higher finding that as I move, the dreams I seek are all available to me, and always were. I can become more like my hero, Christ if I will let go of the past and move into the present with love and courage.

Here are the words of the song:

Chase the high ground - where you'd rather be
Where you might be found
Face all aglow, to leave from here
To pack up and go
But it takes some time to get away
And you will have to build from what remains
To run it takes the courage of a lamb
To love, the fierceness of a storm

Paloma you wonder if you'll miss the thunder
Everyone's staring , but no one is caring for you now
Just spread your wings, latch onto the breeze
Just take the leap... and you're free

Chase the high ground - where you'd rather be
Where you might be found
This move may erase the troubles in your head
Or expose the absence of your soul
And so, it takes some time to get away
And you will have to tear down what remains
And I can't stand for goodbyes
So hold on to me, or lead the way

Paloma you wonder if you'll miss the thunder
Everyone's staring , but no one is caring for you now
Just spread your wings, latch onto the breeze
Just take the leap... and you're free

Pace yourself when outrunning fear
Take cover when it's dark
And keep an even keel
In your world you're only a phone away
But in my world you're too far to feel
And it may take some time to learn what's real
And you may have to beg and borrow
And you will surely steal
Remember all those lonely sessions
Turned into yesterday's lessons
To never forget love, to never forget love

Paloma you wonder if you'll miss the thunder
Everyone's staring, but no one is caring for you now
Just spread your wings, latch onto the breeze
Just take the leap... and you're free

Paloma you wonder if you'll miss the thunder
Everyone's staring but no one is caring for...
Paloma you cry out, you beg for connection
The dreams you seek are straight ahead in every direction
Now you're free
Now that you're, you're free
Now that you're, you're free
You're free

Today I watched the greatest thing of all
A flock of birds, preparing for the fall