Saint James Blog

It is the fourth and final week in our series based on songs by the southern rock group 3 Doors Down. This week we’ll take a look at the video It’s Not My Time. I’m am struck initially by the urgency with which the unnamed man races over, under, through, and around a city to get to a fateful intersection, races to intervene in what appears to be a tragedy in the making. I find this race a metaphor for Jesus. I am certain as the week moves forward, I’ll have deeper reflections about Jesus and this video but this is where I am starting now.

Jesus races against time and in spite of obstacles to reach us, to stop what could be described as a permanent alienation from the God of the universe. I like the image and hope to elaborate a bit more on it as the week goes by.

I am working with the video for the song Away from the Sun by 3 Doors Down. I see in the weight we carry, that we yearn to be released from in our lives. I am wondering about the yearnings we all feel for something more, yearning to move beyond the heaviness that sometimes pulls us down.  

There are many images in the Bible about darkness and light, about pushing forward. I am working to determine what would be the most powerful and healing images about light, striving after the light, that will bring the issues to light…