I Will Wait

Mumford and Sons is one of my favorite bands. Their lyrics are amazing and so much deeper than they seem, you can try to take apart their songs and make them mean so many different things. My favorite song by them right now is called "I Will Wait". I am going to attempt to analyze it to figure out its meaning. The lyrics are:
And I came home
Like a stone
And I fell heavy into your arms
These days of darkness
Which we've known
Will blow away with this new sun

And I'll kneel down
Wait for now
And I'll kneel down
Know my ground

And I will wait, I will wait for you
And I will wait, I will wait for you

So break my step
And relent
You forgave and I won't forget
Know what we've seen
And him with less
Now in some way
Shake the excess

But I will wait, I will wait for you
And I will wait, I will wait for you
And I will wait, I will wait for you
And I will wait, I will wait for you

So I'll be bold
As well as strong
And use my head alongside my heart
So tame my flesh
And fix my eyes
That tethered mind free from the lies

But I'll kneel down
Wait for now
I'll kneel down
Know my ground

Raise my hands
Paint my spirit gold
And bow my head
Keep my heart slow

Cause I will wait, I will wait for you
And I will wait, I will wait for you
And I will wait, I will wait for you
And I will wait, I will wait for you

Mumford and Son's were brought up in the church, therefore many of their songs have a lot of spiritual ties. This song, in my opinion, is very spiritual, and about Jesus Christ. We have been commanded to live this life, to endure the hardships and the trials, and to do what is right to be with him again one day, I feel that is what this song is exactly about. He has done wrong, made mistakes, and is going through hard trials, but at the end of the day, he comes home, kneels down and surrenders himself to Christ. He is talking about how he will do better in his life, he has been forgiven and wont forget and he will do his part in this life, and wait for Him. This song is truly amazing. 

School Play

I am unsure what the play was called, but it was surely something.... Different. I do enjoy going to the school plays, no matter how bad they may be, but this one is by far the worst that I have seen. The language was not too difficult, but the fact that the actors were speaking so quickly, their words were blurring together and I could hardly understand a single word throughout the entire play. I do admit that there were a few funny parts here and there that made me laugh out loud, but the majority of the rest of the play, I was confused. The story line was clear, but I am not sure how that was supposed to represent the independence of women. The women seemed to be very naive and boy crazy, and not to mention they were portrayed a lot with sexual references, so the meaning of the play was a little lost to me.

Oedipus Rex and Genesis

Hopefully I am not driving everyone crazy with all of my Bible references, but I was doing my daily Scripture reading a few days ago and came across a part that reminded me a lot of Oedipus. It was in Genesis and more specifically, chapter 31. Just a little bit of background, there is Jacob who loved a girl named Rachel, he worked for 7 years in order to have her father hand her over to him to marry. After the seven years were up, the father said that Jacob cannot have Rachel, his other daughter, Leah, was older and it was not custom to give the younger daughter before the older. So he made him marry Leah instead and work seven more years if he wanted Rachel. So he did, and finally wedded Rachel. The story goes on and the make a large family and eventually, Rachel stole "teraphim" from Laban with which the possessor had the right to inherit their fathers property. Laban was wrath with anger and he came to Jacob accusing him of stealing them from him. Jacob, being completely unaware that Rachel had stolen them (they were like images or small objects that people would worship, it was very important back then), was so sure that he was innocent that he swore  a severe punishment over the guilty person and asked Laban to search his tents. Laban searched the tents, found nothing and went on his way. But the punishment Jacob suggested still stands for the guilty party. This reminded me a lot of Oedipus being so sure that he was not the guilty person of murdering his father, that he swore and awful punishment of the person that did it. When it turned out all along that he had done it, unknowingly.