Muses: He Lives In You

He Lives In You ~The Lion King
Ingonyama nengw' enamabala (X 4)
[Here is a lion and a tiger]

Night
And the spirit of life
Calling

Oh, oh, iyo
Mamela...
[Listen]
Oh, oh, iyo

And a voice
With the fear of a child
Answers:

Oh, oh, iyo
Oh, mamela...
[Listen]
Oh, oh, iyo

Ubukhosi bo khokho
[Throne of the ancestors]
We ndodana ye sizwe sonke
[Oh, son of the nation]

Wait!
There's no mountain too great
Hear the words and have faith (Oh, oh, iyo)
Oh...
Oh, oh, iyo
Have faith

Hela hey mamela
[Hey, listen] (X 4)

He lives in you
He lives in me
He watches over
Everything we see
Into the water
Into the truth
In your reflection
He lives in you


This is an excerpt of the lyrics for this song, seeing as how parts of it repeat.
This song is without a doubt about Mufasa, as is demonstrated in the Broadway of it: it is performed twice, once after little bitty Simba said to his dad, "Dad, we're pals, right? And we'll always be together!" (Mufasa's answer was this song), and the second time when Rafiki goes all mysterious and says "Look into the water... Look... closer......" (Mufasa lives on in all of us).

However, take a moment and really think about it. These words are so true for everyone we love and are seperated from. They live on in us as long as we never forget them. As Mufasa says in the movie, "You have forgotten me.... you have forgotten yourself, and in doing that, you have forgotten me." We need to keep in touch with all bases, I guess...

Also, there is an undeniable Christian tone in this song in particular. It just wound up sounding like that, I guess, but my best friend and I are going to perform it at my church for the talent show this year :)
He's always there, recall... And even though it feels like we are separated from him, He's right beside us. I draw comfort from that, and I hope you do, too.

~Godspede

Tidbits: Lemonade

You know, I don't know what's happened to me. I used to be able to easily write a blog almost everyday... I'd come home from school or church or a friend's house and be raring to write. Now, it's rare for me to post more than once a month. This is evident in my other writing, too... I wrote a full-sized novel in a year and a half, and now in the past year I've written barely anything.
What makes it even stranger is that I still want to, but I just can't seem to. I have a million small ideas, and whereas they usually expand to be huge things as I write, they lately have just been staying little things.
But I know what this means.... I'm going to make lemonade. From the lemons life is handing me, that is.
So I'll take a page from Sola Fide's book and make a section: Tidbits. If I feel energetic I'll go back and reorganize everything so their labels make them into groups. Oh, and as an FYI, Sola Fide has her own blog now! I love reading it :) It's called Sukuma Wiki, which means something in Swahili that I can't remember... hehe, oops? Help, Miss Fide?
So, thought of today: The Chronicles of Narnia. You may or may not have realized this, but C.S. Lewis was a prominent Christian writer, and the Chronicles of Narnia, especially the famous The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, are giant metaphors for God and his works. You also have or have not realized that the S in his name stands for Staples (I kid you not!), but that really isn't relevant. I just felt like I should mention it. Back to Narnia: there are so many little things that I could point out but, well, I honestly don't feel like it, sorry. There's a point to all this, though. Aslan the big lion dude, represents God in this (king of all of Narnia, Lord of all Creation) and the Pevensie children are the normal inhabitants of Earth, id est (i.e., which = that is [to say]) you and I. I have in my quote book a line from Prince Caspian, one which I took from the movie and am fairly certain is in the book as well:

Lucy: I knew it was you! But the others didn't believe me.
Aslan: And why did that stop you from coming to me?

That was so perfect in every way, I just had to grab a paper and scribble it down. My brother rolled his eyes at me but hey! that's how I am. Do you realize what I saw?
Lucy has always been the loyal one. She, like most young children, is looking for her Saviour around every corner. She never gives up hope that He will come, and when she is certain that she sees Him, she tells everyone, certain that they will be as excited as she is. But, of course, that's not the way it works. They brush her aside the way so many people do and Lucy, being the good little girl she is, lets it go. However, that's letting go of hope.
Never let go of hope.

~Godspede