This is a song about attempted murder… about the fact that every minute a wound is felt by someone… and inflicted on someone else. Some wounds heal and some last a lifetime. But they all have the potential to kill. And sometimes they do.
The wounded is all of us. The killers are all of us. There is a time in everyone’s life when “it” happened… the moment that our reality was shattered. When the trust, the hope, the dream that is the possibility in each one of us was crushed by someone else’s pain. Some of us get through it and reorganize our lives. Some of us forget. And some us repeat what was done. These actions play out in ways too numerous to count. From emotional or physical abuse to simple acts of disregard for a relationship – to a person… to an animal…to the natural world around us…
Father Gary Thomas performs exorcisms. He’s one of at least 52 priests in America that do this. He says that “soul wounds” can serve as “doorways” to demonic attachment and possession. “Demons are always looking for people who have broken relationships.”
I would argue that every one of us is possessed…. Every one of us has a “soul wound”. And inside that wound, a possession takes place that creates doubt, fear, anger, pain. And others feed on that wound. Whether it’s someone we know, someone we admire from a distance or the broader forces of consumerism, media, religion and other societal systems that prey on open wounds.
This song was inspired by the Sandusky trial - the specifics of how horrific it is that a child who puts his trust in the archetype of a safe, loving father figure can be destroyed in one moment - and the generalities of how that plays out every day on so many levels. The literal killing and also the soul destroying actions that create disconnection at every turn.
The divine isn’t somewhere else. It’s right here. But it’s not in anything… it’s between everything. Matthew 18:20: For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Loving relationship is where the divine lives - accessible to everyone… all the time.
“Holes too big to put down”
Why is it that we can’t claim our wounds – ask for help in the healing - and end this war with ourselves and each other? Don’t buy into someone else’s story – or someone else’s pain. It’s time to reclaim what you always had - what was always here.
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Father Gary Thomas performs exorcisms. He’s one of at least 52 priests in America that do this. He says that “soul wounds” can serve as “doorways” to demonic attachment and possession. “Demons are always looking for people who have broken relationships.”
I would argue that every one of us is possessed…. Every one of us has a “soul wound”. And inside that wound, a possession takes place that creates doubt, fear, anger, pain. And others feed on that wound. Whether it’s someone we know, someone we admire from a distance or the broader forces of consumerism, media, religion and other societal systems that prey on open wounds.
This song was inspired by the Sandusky trial - the specifics of how horrific it is that a child who puts his trust in the archetype of a safe, loving father figure can be destroyed in one moment - and the generalities of how that plays out every day on so many levels. The literal killing and also the soul destroying actions that create disconnection at every turn.
The divine isn’t somewhere else. It’s right here. But it’s not in anything… it’s between everything. Matthew 18:20: For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Loving relationship is where the divine lives - accessible to everyone… all the time.
“Holes too big to put down”
Why is it that we can’t claim our wounds – ask for help in the healing - and end this war with ourselves and each other? Don’t buy into someone else’s story – or someone else’s pain. It’s time to reclaim what you always had - what was always here.
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