you werent mine to begin with

Jonah's Prayer
2 "In my distress I called to the LORD,
and he answered me.
From the depths of the grave
I called for help,
and you listened to my cry.
3 You hurled me into the deep,
into the very heart of the seas,
and the currents swirled about me;
all your waves and breakers
swept over me.
4 I said, 'I have been banished f
rom your sight;
yet I will look again
toward your holy temple.'
5 The engulfing waters threatened me,
the deep surrounded me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.
6 To the roots of the mountains I sank down;
the earth beneath barred me in forever.
But you brought my life up from the pit,
O LORD my God.
7 "When my life was ebbing away,
I remembered you, LORD,
and my prayer rose to you,
to your holy temple.
8 "Those who cling to worthless idols
forfeit the grace that could be theirs.
9 But I, with a song of thanksgiving,
will sacrifice to you.
What I have vowed I will make good.
Salvation comes from the LORD."


this passage really moved me
i was drawn to it as i read Anne Rice's Christ the Lord out of egypt
for those with bibles without good refrencing, well part of the beauty of this prayer is jonahs constant quotation of psalms
the book really drew me to a beautiful part of jewish culture
whereby good pious jewish children were taught the psalms and they incorporated such beautiful lines into their depths

but i guess more importantly, it made me wonder
will i only submit to God when im finally at the mercy of gutteral secretions of a big fish
will i turn and run the other way?



im becoming depraved

im giving it all back to you
all back to you
my surrender
im giving it all back to you
all back to you
my surrender
take it all