Conversatio Morum en The Waterboys

In de instelling waar ik werk slepen veel mensen trauma’s/ gebeurtenissen uit hun verleden dagelijks met zich mee. Benedictus roept ons op om gehoorzaam te zijn aan het zich aandienende moment in het heden. (Obedientia)

Daarnaast is elk moment een moment om God te heiligen, een moment van ommekeer. (Conversatio Morum) Een kans om anders tegen het zich aandienende moment aan te kijken. Het verleden heeft je gebracht naar dit moment, deze zee van ruimte om je blikrichting te veranderen, om je te openen/ te bevrijden, om anders tegen het leven aan te kijken.

Verlies, spijt, verlangen, worstelen met het verleden dat je achtervolgt, het zit allemaal in dit lied. Maar ook veerkracht. Elk moment is een kans tot ommekeer of verandering van blikrichting.

Rk. Justitiepastor Rudi

The Waterboys - This Is The Sea (live)

These things you keep
you better throw them away
you want to turn your back
on your soulless days
once you were tethered
now you are free
once you were tethered
now you are free
that was the river
this is the sea

now if you are feeling weary
if you've been alone too long
or maybe you been suffering from
a few too many plans that have gone wrong
and you're tryin' to remember
how fine your life used to be
running around banging your drum
like it's nineteen seventy three
well that was the river
this is the sea

now you say you got trouble
you say you got pain
you say you got nothin' left to believe in
nothin' to hold on to
nothin' to trust
nothin' but chains
you've been scouring your conscience
raking through your memory
scouring your conscience
raking through your memory
that was the river
this is the sea

now i can see you're waverin'
as you try to decide
you've got a war in your head
and it's tearing you up inside
you're tryin' to make sense
of something that you just don't see
tryin' to make sense now
and you know that you once held the key
but that was the river
and this is the sea

now here is a train
it's comin' on down the line
you realise if you hurry
you got still enough time
and you don't need no ticket
and you dont pay no fee
and you don't need no ticket
and you dont pay no fee
because that was the river
and this is the sea