Group 1Crew on Forgiveness

Just for fun. I fell in love with this group when their first CD came out. This is one of my all time favorite

songs. Similar theme to The Motions. Another favorite from Group 1 Crew is "Can't Go On"

Not only are they a wonderfully innovative group with great messages embedded in fantastic lyrics, they still allow people to embed their videos =]. A number a groups do not. I only wish I was musically adept enough to pull out the parts to some of their songs and put them together for the kids at church to do as an offertory.

Forgive Me - by Group 1 Crew

Father, I'm going through some heavy things
It seems like this world ain't getting any better
The more we try to get closer to You
The farther we run from Your throne

I've spent so many nights wonderin' when will it end
When will the day come when happiness begins
I'm running the race but it seems too hard to win
I'm sick of mourning my stomach is throwing up in the morning

I'm calling for help and watching it melt away
My heart's been put on display and put away
In many ways, many times I told myself it was ok
And anger was the price that was paid
While these faded dreams just screamed to bring them home

The burden was too heavy I kept running from the throne
I can't take it any longer
I can taste my spirit hunger
God please help me get home

[Chorus:]
Lord though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I'm not scared cause You're holding my breath
I only fear that I don't have enough time left
To tell the world that there's no time left, Lord please
Lord though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I'm not scared cause You're holding my breath
I only fear that I don't have enough time left
To tell the world that there's no time left

I've come to terms that I'm burning both sides of the rope
And I'm hoping that self-control would kick in before I'm choking off
The sin that be destroying every fiber I got
I need the Lord in every way I'll never make it I'm not
Going back to the way I was before Christ in my life
I couldn't do it I would lose it there's no point to the fight
And I'm writing this song, for the people who don't belong
I pray away the pain you feel from all the things that went wrong
Inside a life that's filled with anger and disappointment
Cause daddy treated you weaker than all of the other kids
It's annoying and I feel for all of you who wanna give up
You feel stuck I feel the same way Lord help us stay up
You couldn't pay me to abandon the idea of true hope
That I could make it through this life into a place where there's no crying
I'm dying to find You with open arms when I go
Knowing You love me and You waiting to give rest to my soul

Lord I don't know what I'm struggling for
There's go to be more
Than this life I know
But still I'm here fighting to never give up
I find strength in Your love
And You will see me through

Their website is here: http://www.group1crew.com/

Story about John and Elizabeth Edwards

RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) --

Two weeks after a devastating revelation sent her husband into political exile, Elizabeth Edwards isn't getting the steady sympathy usually afforded to a woman scorned.

Elizabeth Edwards, pictured with John Edwards in May, has been criticized for the way she handled his affair.

Instead, she's faced criticism from dedicated Democrats who think she was too willing to keep the affair a secret to help John Edwards' political ambitions, as well as her own. At a time when she was expected to hold a prominent role in pushing an agenda of improved health care for Americans, she stands silent. While fellow Democrats converge in Denver, Colorado, to nominate Barack Obama for president, Edwards remains in seclusion in North Carolina. It seems an odd way to treat a woman with incurable cancer wronged by a cheating husband, the latest in a series of deep hardships in life that includes the death of a teenage son....In a post on the liberal blog Daily Kos, where Edwards has her own diary, she pleaded for privacy and later seemed to explain why she stuck by her spouse and his presidential ambitions.
For the rest see:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/08/26/elizabeth.edwards.ap/index.html

Amazing that it is the liberal blogs that want to tear her apart. So much for compassion. And forgiveness. If someone knows they have done wrong -- and an affair under any circumstances, by any measure, is wrong -- they stop doing it and seek to make it right, then we need to extend forgiveness. Under the circumstances, John Edwards affair is somewhat creepy and certainly frightening, but it is not unforgivable.

Elizabeth and John have a 16 yr old son who died, she has cancer, and he had an affair. Cheating on a spouse is wrong no matter what, but sometimes people do lousy things under severe stress they may not have done otherwise.

He ended the affair and sought to make it right with his wife. She decided to work towards forgiving him. Why does this disqualify him politically? No one can claim perfection. We venerate people like John F Kennedy who are believed to have had multiple affairs with no apparent remorse, yet we want to demonize John Edwards for an affair he ended. Worse — we want to demonize his wife for forgiving him.

Why?

For another take see http://seriouslyguys.com/2008/08/26/for-shame-elizabeth-edwards/#comment-642