Happy Friday, Friends!
I hope and trust this post finds you all having a great day as a glorious new day begins to dawn in my Sweet Home Alabama! This one is going to be special…you can just feel it!!! 😊
I would be remiss if I did not start this Happy Friday by wishing my Beautiful Bride a Happy Birthday! You are my greatest earthly blessing and my highest calling! It is truly an honor and privilege to be your husband and I love, value, cherish, and adore you! 😊
This week I am going to share a story, a song, and a few thoughts. It is all based on the song “Burn the Ships” by for King & Country. That song hits me different every time and, having heard it again this week, I just had to share it with you all this week!
Here is the story behind the song. What I am sharing here was written by Mark Geil on October 2, 2018. The title of the article is “for King & Country – Story Behind the Song ‘Burn the Ships’”. You can find the article at ccmmagazine.com.
“For King & Country‘s new album Burn the Ships is filled with personal songs born out of traumatic moments and difficult lessons learned. The band’s ability to convey these vulnerable experiences into song is what helps connect them with an audience that reaches around the world. We recently asked Luke Smallbone to take us behind one of the new songs, specifically the title track, to show an example of where the band’s songwriting is centered.
“When my wife was pregnant with our second son, Phoenix, she was dealing with a lot of morning sickness. She went to the doctor, and he gave her some medicine to help with the nausea. I was out on the road a decent amount during that time. I noticed her behavior changed a little bit, but she was pregnant, so that’s not unusual.
One particular day, I was in Austin, Texas getting ready for a show that evening. She called me and said, “I need you to come home. I can’t stop taking these pills.” I asked my other brother, who was in town, to go be with Courtney and make sure she was okay. I got on a plane and came home.
As the night went on, she would start shaking and having these conversations like, “Maybe the doctors want me to just taper off, not stop taking these right away.” She was almost hallucinating. Of all the things I’ve experienced, I think that was the most difficult thing I’ve dealt with, because the next day I had to take her to a mental hospital.
When they called her back, I got up to go back with her, like a normal doctor’s appointment, and they said, “No. You can’t come.” I felt so much grief in that moment. She had outpatient therapy every day. We actually had some amazing memories of that time. She excelled, she was doing great, but she still felt this pull to pills. One day I went home and she said, “Luke, I’ve got to symbolize something, I’ve got to flush these pills down the toilet. I’m done. I’m done with the guilt and the shame. I’ve got to move into a new way. A new life.”
When she was flushing those pills, the analogy of burning the ships came to me: the story of the sailors not wanting to explore the new world, wanting the comforts of their boats. Their leader calls them out and says, “We’ve got to burn the ships. This is a new world.”
It was a unique moment that I’m thankful is in the past, that we get to talk about in this manner now.”
And here is the lyrics to the song. Please, if you have just a few moments, go listen to the song…you will not regret it! 😊
Burn the Ships
for King & Country
You can find the lyrics at Christian-songlyrics.net
How did we get here?
All castaway on a
lonely shore
I can see in your eyes,
dear
It's hard to take for
a moment more
We've got to
Burn the ships, cut
the ties
Send a flare into the
night
Say a prayer, turn the
tide
Dry your tears and wave goodbye
Step into a new day
We can rise up from
the dust and walk away
We can dance upon our
heartache, yeah
So light a match,
leave the past, burn the ships
And don't you look back
Don't let it arrest
you
This fear is fear of
fallin' again
And if you need a
refuge
I will be right here
until the end
Oh, it's time to
Burn the ships, cut the
ties
Send a flare into the
night
Say a prayer, turn the
tide
Dry your tears and wave goodbye
Step into a new day
We can rise up from
the dust and walk away
We can dance upon our
heartache, yeah
So light a match,
leave the past, burn the ships
And don't you look back
So long to shame, walk
through the sorrow
Out of the fire into
tomorrow
So flush the pills,
face the fear
Feel the wave
disappear
We're comin' clear,
we're born again
Our hopeful lungs can
breathe again
Oh, we can breathe again
Step into a new day
We can rise up from
the dust and walk away
We can dance upon our
heartache, yeah
So light a match,
leave the past, burn the ships
And step into a new
day
We can rise up from
the dust and walk away
We can dance upon our
heartache, yeah
So light a match,
leave the past, burn the ships
And don't you look back
And don't you look
back
And don't you look back
Powerful, isn’t it? 😊
So Sweet Friends, it is a new day! Perhaps you don’t know how you got to where you are today – spiritually, emotionally, physically, etc. – however you don’t have to stay there. You can step into a new day TODAY! You can rise up and walk away TODAY! You can light a match, leave the past, and burn the ships TODAY! You can step into a new day TODAY! And please, don’t look back…you are not going that way TODAY! 😊
Please don’t hesitate to contact me if there is ever anything I can do for you or your family. I will always help you any way I can. You can reach me at kevin@whatwillyourinfluencebe.com.
Have a great day, a wonderful weekend, please cherish your precious families, and please stay well! 😊
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