Cari says, "I think it's a little awkward for Joe to sing songs like these. We're not used to such bareness! We look at our feet and try not to find ourselves familiar with our aloneness; we smile tight little smiles to soothe away despair."
What if despair won't be soothed away? What if it's so great that we cry out, like Jesus, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
You have been told the pursuit of happinness is the goal of life. You have been told when you're in despair, you think you need to do everything you can to remove yourself from it's pain.
I say find peace even there. I say make your home in hell itself.
Then no man can take anything from you
And your peace will be everlasting.
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