my friend and i have been obsessed with this song for a while now after
i introduced her to anberlin, and she found this on a youtube video called
"Patron Saints" (there are more than one):
Stephen: " "Fin" is a series of four stories, that all tie together in the
line 'patron saint of lost causes.' The first story is a personal memoir
about my life as a child and the pull on my soul even then. I deliberated
even at eight years old, that it would be better that God and the devil
would just both leave me alone. The second story is about a couple from my
early teen years church who cried for a miracle. It was a promised miracle,
and it never came about. That leaves an impression. The third is about a mentor
that used the guse of 'missions work' to leave his family in shambles and
eventually decay. That plays with your salvation, when one experiences it.
(The fourth story is about) Billy, a traveling 'healer' who crippled my life
and growth right in front of me. All these things and many, many others made
me lose my salvation. But later in life i realized i needed to stop looking at
Christians to see Christ. I wrestled with God, and he won."
my friend and i have been obsessed with this song for a while now after i introduced her to anberlin, and she found this on a youtube video called "Patron Saints" (there are more than one):
Stephen: " "Fin" is a series of four stories, that all tie together in the line 'patron saint of lost causes.' The first story is a personal memoir about my life as a child and the pull on my soul even then. I deliberated even at eight years old, that it would be better that God and the devil would just both leave me alone. The second story is about a couple from my early teen years church who cried for a miracle. It was a promised miracle, and it never came about. That leaves an impression. The third is about a mentor that used the guse of 'missions work' to leave his family in shambles and eventually decay. That plays with your salvation, when one experiences it. (The fourth story is about) Billy, a traveling 'healer' who crippled my life and growth right in front of me. All these things and many, many others made me lose my salvation. But later in life i realized i needed to stop looking at Christians to see Christ. I wrestled with God, and he won."