Music Monday: Never Be Ready
This week’s Music Monday selection is:
Never Be Ready by Mat Kearney.
This song is from Mat Kearney’s newest album, City of Black and White. Though it was a long three year wait between album releases, with expectations high for the new one, it did not disappoint. There are many songs on this project that touch me and speak to where I am in my journey. Never Be Ready is one of them.
Too often in my life “fear is an anchor,” holding me back from using the gifts God has given me, preventing me from reaching the true potential God has in store for me. This is especially the case after failure. To avoid a repeat of the hurt that comes from failure, I tend to wait for the perfect moment, wait until I have all the information and the timing is just right, before acting or making a decision, but as Kearney sings, “We’ll never be ready if we keep waiting for the perfect time to come.” I’m gradually learning to not let fear hold me back, learning to seize the day (caaaarpeeee diiiieeeem – think Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society) because “we aren’t promised tomorrow.” As sung by The Wedding in Say Your Prayers, it’s time to not let fear anchor me to mediocrity or hold me back from reaching my dreams and golds, but to “Lay [my] life down at the altar” and show God “how serious [I am].” It’s time to “[dive] in over [my] head” and take some risks. [Insert any one of the thousand quotes about failure and success here.]
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Lyrics:
We got our feet on the wire
Talking ’bout flying
Maybe we’re diving in over our heads
Scared of what I’m feeling
Staring at the ceiling
Here tonightCome on and lay down these arms
All our best defenses
We’re taking our chances here on the run
The fear is an anchor
Time is a stranger
Love isn’t borrowed
We aren’t promised tomorrowWe’ll never be ready if we keep waiting
For the perfect time to come
Hold me steady, we’ll never be ready
When we don’t know, though we can’t see
Just walk on down this road with me
Hold me steady, we’ll never be readyYou’re OK here with me
Here in the silence
With all of the violence crashing around
Saying we can’t go
Saying we don’t know
This road that is narrow is the one we should followWe’ll never be ready if we keep waiting
For the perfect time to come
Hold me steady, we’ll never be ready
When we don’t know, though we can’t see
Just walk on down this road with me
Hold me steady, we’ll never be readySteady my hands this one could turn around
Steady my heart, it’s beating faster
Steady my hands this one could turn around
Steady my heart, it’s beating faster
Beating faster nowWe’ll never be ready if we keep waiting
For the perfect time to come
Hold me steady, we’ll never be ready
When we don’t know, though we can’t see
Just walk on down this road with me
Hold me steady, never be readyHold me steady, we’ll never be ready
Hold me steady, we’ll never be ready
Hold me steady, we’ll never be ready
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Still remember you emailing me about Car-Part's website.
never flown?! that blows me away! typo in the 'caliper'. 
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