i also really need prayer right now... (i don't know why but i always feel soooo guilty asking ppl to pray for me) but i'm slipping back into everything and i really don't want to...
Demon Hunter's "Thorns" is about self injury. They said about the song ""In the few months before I began writing lyrics for this record, I was hearing a lot about cutting. This, for those who don’t know is the act of inflicting pain on one’s self (often times by cutting with a knife, or burning with a lighter) in order to take their mind off of some emotional pain. Although I don’t personally know anyone who has dealt with this (that I am aware of), the idea of writing a song about it was really placed on my heart. I guess I thought I might be able to speak to some young people about this particular issue. I couldn’t help but draw a connection between someone wanting to inflict pain on themselves and Jesus having been sacrificed so that we wouldn’t need to bare the guilt of sin. My thought was that Christ had already been cut for us, so there was no need for us to inflict pain on ourselves. That work has been paid for in full by the cross. The chorus lyrics hope that this person (represented by a young female in the song) might find this truth in her darkest of times, when she realizes that the emptiness she hoped would leave after inflicting this pain, still remains. Her flesh, broken, is emptiness. Christ’s flesh broken is mercy for us." - Demon Hunter
That was amazing to me... The lyrics:
Bitter thoughts became your every waking breath
Save the nights your hollow dreams revealed the sweet release of death
In your thoughts you played a symphony of self
But your soul had bled a darker song of close to nothing left
Oh, The deliverance of blade and flame, your love
And greater is the blood
Chorus:
You’ll find it in the veil of night where solitude is born
In the emptiness of broken flesh, at the mercy of the thorns
You’ll find it in the veil of night where solitude is born
In the emptiness of broken flesh, at the mercy of the thorns
Every line a path into an empty heart
Where the words of now forgotten love fall silent in the dark
Oh, The deliverance of blade and flame, your love
And greater is the blood
(Chorus)
Sister, don’t you sleep through your own eulogy
Don’t sever what you are for what you couldn’t be
question: is it a sin to OD as SH rather than suicide?
and further question to any catholics: if so, is it the kind of sin you'd have to confess before taking communion? (not knocking non-catholics, honest! just if you don't do confession you won't have the answer)
hi im not sure if my last post got through or not ive been looking for it but i cant seem to find it.
i feel like im falling away from god and like he doesnt care. i can feel the darkness in me getting stronger everyday, and ive been shaking and forgetting basic prayers when i try to pray. something tells me inside "oh its fine you arent falling away its fine" but i know its a bad thing. im so lost and confused i need prayers help...
God always cares. He promised He'd never leave us or forsake us. and He is always faithful to His promises. I'll be praying for you.
and I encourage you to spend a long time in prayer. Try and find a quiet place with no distractions, and just talk to Him.
ok...so i found out yesterday that a guy that went to my school last year committed suicide this past weekend. He was a senior this year and was a junior when he went to my school. I go to a VERY tiny school, but even though i know everybody in the high school, i didn't recognize his name at first. I know who he is now, and i remember seeing him sit alone at lunch. I feel horrible...like somehow if i hadn't been so caught up in my own little world that maybe i would have noticed how much he needed a friend. i dont know...i feel like in some small way, its my fault, along with everybody else in my school. anyways...i just wanted to get that out. If you guys could pray for his family that would be great.
rasberryren: i understand how you feel and i totally agree with salanna. also, when you pray to him, don't just do "basic prayers" tell him how you really feel about whatever is going on in your life. its ok if you tell him your angry, or upset or whatever...he wants us to be honest when we pray to him :)
Last edited by dazedandconfused : 14-01-2009 at 03:17 AM.
Reason: forgot something
waiting in the dark: There is no easy answer to that. You must understand the difference between SH as a release/a way of coping and SH as masochism/hurting yourself just for the sake of it/being able to do what you please to your body. I think SH as a coping mechanism isn't a big sin, but it is, however, a sin because your body is God's temple (can someone provide me with the right quote from the bible? Salanna, Jacie?) and his gift to you. Confession is not necessary, but it could help you stop feeling guilty. If you are able to be sorry for what you've done and repent for it at mass (you know, the collective confession part at the beginning), then it should be OK.
19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
is this what your looking for deena
somewhere in hebrews it talks about how the sacrfices of the old testment were not for god but to curb guilt in people
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!"
Thomas Parke D’Invilliers
Hi guys *wanders in shyly* I wonder if you guys could pray for me? I'm feeling a long way from God at the moment and I need prayers badly right now for me and also for my friend Paul who has an E.D, I'm very worried about him. I feel very alone and frightened of failing my degree, I have an exam on friday and I can't concentrate without S.Iing.
Thanks.
Silver x
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!"
Thomas Parke D’Invilliers
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!"
Thomas Parke D’Invilliers
Hey guys, I'm having some trouble with my church... It's just been one issue after another... Please pray that we will be a body of believers who hold the Word of God as our final standard, and that church would not just be a social club, but that our beliefs would have a noticeable impact on our lives.
