Music with Meaning - No More No Less - MercyMe

I rediscovered one of my favourite Christian bands on Spotify and then again at WYD 2011 (they played some songs on the PA at the Love and Life conferences). This was the song that really touched me from the beginning. I love the second half so much, but the lyrics are superb. It reminds us that we can't be who we are not, we need to just go out there and let everyone know we are adopted sons of God, through Jesus Christ (Eph 1:5), and live in constant anticipation of going to our Heavenly home (my favourite part of the song is when they sing "Lord, I want to go home, nothing more and nothing less"). I remember reading a quote from Pope Benedict XVI talking about how Christians are in the World, but not of this world. We are all on a pilgrimage to our eternal home. Sing this song out loud and let everyone know who your Daddy is :-) Abba, Father, we adore you.

The lyrics are:

I'm not trying to hide anything

I wear it on my sleeve

I wear it on my sleeve

I'm not trying to be something I'm not

This is all I've got

This is all I've got

I'm not trying to re-invent the wheel

Just trying to be real

Trying to be real

I'm not trying to say follow me

I'm not the one who leads

I'm not the one who leads

Let me introduce myself to you

This is who I am

No more, no less

I am just a man who understands

Because of You I'm blessed

No more, no less
I'm not trying to prove anything

It's all about the change

It's all about the change
I hope you stare just long enough to see

The heart that's beating here inside of me

Beyond all the things you may think you know

I'm just a kid trying to make it home, that's it

No more, no less

Lord, I want to go home

Nothing more, nothing less

I would also like to share with you something beautiful that the Pope shared in the interview "Light of the World" about being human:

"{T}here does need to be a new realization that being human is something great, a great challenge, to which the banality of just drifting along doesn't do justice. Any more than the attitude that comfort is the best way to live, that feeling healthy is the sum and substance of happiness. There needs to be a new sense that being human is subject to a higher set of standards, indeed, that it is precisely these demands that make a greater happiness possible in the first place. There needs to be a sense that being human is like a mountain climbing expedition that includes some arduous slopes. But it is by them that we reach the summit and are able to experience for the first time how beautiful it is to be."