Days 57-58 ~ Teach Me What You Love, Lord

Father....Will You teach me how to love?
Below is quoted from the person who took this video, Light Gives Heat, by Jars of Clay. 

 
per youtube's onekgguy: "This is such a beautiful song about our sometimes misplaced intentions as we try and help those less fortunate. It's about the suffering people in Darfur (and maybe elsewhere) and how they desperately need our help but they're not looking for us to fix them because they aren't broken.

Please excuse the at times poor audio as we were seated right in front of a massive speaker."

Light Gives Heat

Catch the rain empty hands
Save the children from their lands
Wash the darkness from their skin
Heroes from the west
We don't know you, we know best
But this is not a test

You treat me like I'm blind
Setting fires around houses on the hill
But light gives heat
You segregate my mind
Burning crosses from your fears, oh
The light gives heat

It's not the way to light their way
Boys in holes in empty fields
Oh, how good it feels
Lower-class, and understate
Empty promise, empty plate

You treat me like I'm blind
Setting fires around houses on the hill
Light gives heat
You segregate my mind
Burning crosses from your fears, your fears
But light gives heat, gives heat

You treat me like I'm blind
Setting fires around houses on the hill
Light gives heat
You segregate my mind
Burning crosses from your fears
But light gives heat

Will you teach us how to love?
To see the things you see
Walk the road you walked
Feel the pain that you feel
At your feet I kneel,
I want to see you shine
See your light not mine
'Cause light gives heat
Your light gives heat