I'm an atheist now, but my childhood was shaped by my Christian faith. This song reaches out to me. I know it's probably not what Needtobreathe intended, but to me this song tells a story about a man losing his faith but desperately trying to hold on to it, as I did for such a long time before finally abandoning it. "When the answers and the truth have cut their ties"...life has shown me that my beliefs just aren't making as much sense as they used to. "Will you still find me, will you still see me, through smoke?" I want God to still be there for me, I want him to make sense of all these questions and eliminate my doubts (smoke). "When everything you know seems so untrue...when i'm lost in a place that I thought I knew....give me some way that I might find you" That bridge is the most powerful...we desperately seek the surety and comfort of our childhood faith but it has eroded to the point that you're left with uncomfortable doubt and uncertainty. We want God to restore that confidence in our faith.
For me personally, I pleaded with God for 6 months of my life in college to restore that faith, and he never did. But that pain and sadness has been replaced with the liberation, joy, and happiness of accepting the fact that while there is no God, I can live every day as if it were my last without the repression and guilt that comes along with religion. This song reminds me of that beautiful transitional time in my life six years ago.
I'm an atheist now, but my childhood was shaped by my Christian faith. This song reaches out to me. I know it's probably not what Needtobreathe intended, but to me this song tells a story about a man losing his faith but desperately trying to hold on to it, as I did for such a long time before finally abandoning it. "When the answers and the truth have cut their ties"...life has shown me that my beliefs just aren't making as much sense as they used to. "Will you still find me, will you still see me, through smoke?" I want God to still be there for me, I want him to make sense of all these questions and eliminate my doubts (smoke). "When everything you know seems so untrue...when i'm lost in a place that I thought I knew....give me some way that I might find you" That bridge is the most powerful...we desperately seek the surety and comfort of our childhood faith but it has eroded to the point that you're left with uncomfortable doubt and uncertainty. We want God to restore that confidence in our faith.
For me personally, I pleaded with God for 6 months of my life in college to restore that faith, and he never did. But that pain and sadness has been replaced with the liberation, joy, and happiness of accepting the fact that while there is no God, I can live every day as if it were my last without the repression and guilt that comes along with religion. This song reminds me of that beautiful transitional time in my life six years ago.
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