You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Edwin Louis Cole
The words to the song goes. “I am a felon, I tell no lie. Hand on the Bible and to the sky. I wanna live, I [don’t] want to die…it could have been the end, [man]. One way, hell’s gate. BUT the LORD stepped in, chose to show GRACE. Could have been dead, [man], but I’m ALIVE and the old me gone, cause everyday, [man] I BURY me.”
I recently discovered this song by Thi’sl who is rapping about his life. The words are heavy and sometimes hard to swallow, yet they are also laden with hope. Here’s what I thought after listening to this song: If I met him on the street, how would I have treated him? Why is this my thought? Society has taught us to judge the outside. We don’t take the time to see the person. I wonder even now, how many people still see the felon, and NOT the person who was shown GRACE; the one who takes the time everyday to bury the old him. Ed Cole said it perfectly, ” [In life], you don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there”. Thi’sl chose not to stay there.
So what am I thankful for today? That I am learning to see the person and not the appearance.
Great post. You’re doing a great things with these posts. Even when life isn’t going the way we want it to, there is always something to be thankful for in each and every day of our lives. Thi’sl is a very good rapper too. Anyone reading this should check out the song “Signed Up To Die” off his album ‘Beautiful Monster”. That song is about not being afraid to defend your faith and spread the Gospel, even if it results in your death, “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21).