Tribute to Mumford & Sons: Grace

Our goal is to find Grace and perspective and along the way, right?  We found some songs, quotes, lines we liked we wanted to share or get people thinking about.  The world needs more gracious people, needs to be a safer place to mess up and make mistakes and have loving people around to let you fall and get back up.

It's finally HERE!  We attend the Mumford & Sons concert today (my mom's 40th birthday present) and we are so excited to see them but also to be reminded of their amazing song writing.  Mom and I want to write songs like them and today we will try our hand at it on the way to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.  They have lines that really make us think and remind us to be better people.  (Line and then my though on it.)  If you haven't heard Mumford & Sons, check them out!


"Roll away your stone, I'll roll away mine..."  (let's lower our defenses and meet in the middle)


"If only I'd had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could have won"  
(you have to care first to get anywhere)

"Seems that all my bridges have been burned.  You say that's exactly how this grace thing works.  It's not the long walk home that will change this heart.  But the welcome I receive at every start."   

(this is our favorite I think. We appreciate people who let us mess up and then let us grow and try again.  Mom says it's my job to mess up as a kid and her job to teach me what's right and it's nice when others help with that in a loving way. You'd think more people would be like this.)


Your grace is wasted in your face,
Your boldness stands alone among the wreck
Now learn from your mother or else spend your days Biting your own neck


Rate yourself and rake yourself,
Take all the courage you have left
Wasted on fixing all the problems 
That you made in your own head

(learn from the past, your mistakes or be doomed to repeat them.  Waste time obsessing on little problems and making trouble but you are missing out on life and people)






Snow Patrol song:Chasing Cars


"I need your grace to remind me to find my own."    (Do unto others... and thank you for your kindness, forgiveness)




Quotes:

We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.

- Mairead Maguire

Grace comes about in spite of something....


Forgiveness costs nothing


Grace is power