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\"walking1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

When I first posted this song on October 31 last year<\/a>, it was my private adieu <\/em>to fundamentalism. I couldn’t say that overtly at the time. Circumstances were too recent. The pain was too sharp. The wounds were too fresh and confusing.<\/p>\n

Grant had found this Janis Ian song in our collection during a Fall Saturday chore of indexing our mp3 files, and it was too spot-on to avoid. We sat listening to it over and over, stunned at how accurately it expressed our deep feelings of sadness and disappointment.<\/p>\n

We were being summarily and completely pushed out of our faith community. I personally had left alone, packing up my office by myself in the middle of the night when the kids were asleep and when the shunning eyes were absent. They literally <\/em>tried to stop my husband’s singing in the middle of his song<\/a>–just as he and I were learning how free and full-of-grace that song was. They said our study was foolish and selfish and that the darkness of ignorance was best–a blessing in disguise.<\/p>\n

So on this on our own Reformation Day, once again but this time openly, adieu<\/em><\/a>. I hate to see a friend go down in flames without a song, so I leave you with this.<\/p>\n

Adieu<\/em>. God help us all.<\/p>\n

[audio:https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/03-From-Me-to-You.mp3]<\/p>\n

I\u2019m leaving by night.
\nI\u2019m leaving alone.
\nI\u2019m leaving it lie
\nWhen you waken I\u2019ll be gone.
\nI would not beg for me
\nAs I would not beg for you
\nThough I\u2019d like to be
\nThe one to see you through.<\/p>\n

Every step you have taken
\nDisappears with the tide.
\nYou\u2019re torn up and shaken
\nWith changing your mind.
\nYou haven\u2019t got the grace
\nTo say you\u2019ll finally decide.
\nAnd you haven\u2019t got
\nThe strength to stay to fight.<\/p>\n

Those people who surround you
\nOnly want to see you weak enough to crawl.
\nThey\u2019ll lie for you, decide for you
\nAnd buy up all your rights
\nAnd all your wrongs.
\nAnd they\u2019ll try to stop your singing
\nIn the middle of your song;
\nFor they do not want you free
\nAnd they will not make you strong,
\nBut only drag you down
\nIn the hole they\u2019re coming from.<\/p>\n

They say you are foolish
\nIn wanting the sun.
\nSay you are selfish
\nIn learning to run.
\nTell you that the darkness
\nIs a blessing in disguise;
\nFor you never have to notice
\nIf you\u2019re sighted or you\u2019re blind.
\nAnd they\u2019ll do their best
\nTo keep you from the light.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re more than beginning;
\nYou\u2019re learning to fly.
\nYou feel like you\u2019re falling.
\nBut it passes in time.
\nI hate to see a friend go down
\nIn flames without a song.
\nSo I\u2019m waiting by the doorway
\nBut I will not linger long.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m leaving by night.
\nI\u2019m leaving alone.
\nI\u2019m leaving it lie.
\nWhen you waken I\u2019ll be gone.
\nI would not beg for me
\nAs I could not beg for you.
\nBut I\u2019d like to be
\nThe one to see you through.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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