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DIRTY DAY

You can hold onto something so tight 
You've already lost it....
I'm in you, more so when they put me in the ground
Jesus: "Unless a grain of wheat is buried in the ground, dead to the world, it is never any more than a grain of wheat. But if it is buried, it sprouts and reproduces itself many times over. In the same way, anyone who holds on to life just as it is destroys that life." John 12:23-25 MSG
If you need someone to blame
Throw a rock in the air
​You'll hit someone guilty
Jesus: "Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." John 8:7 NIV
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All have turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one. Psalm 14:3 NIV
From father to son
In one life has begun
A work that's never done
​Father to son
What advantage does man have in all his work / Which he does under the sun?
A generation goes and a generation comes, / But the earth remains forever. Ecclesiastes 1:2-4 NASB
 
What’s there to show for a lifetime of work, a lifetime of working your fingers to the bone? One generation goes its way, the next one arrives, but nothing changes...." Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 MSG
 
Jesus: "'Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.'"
​Matthew 6:9-10 NIV
 
All the ends of the earth will remember and... will proclaim his righteousness, declaring to a people yet unborn: He has done it! Psalm 22:31 NIV

#Bono: "Christ saying: 'He that loves his life shall lose it.' I mean, that is pretty extreme.... YOU CAN HOLD ONTO SOMETHING SO TIGHT it's like YOU'VE ALREADY LOST IT. And that's one of those deep spiritual insights that took me a long time to discover." #U2 By U2, p. 119 pic.twitter.com/8vYMLbMc64

— Bono’s Bible (@BonosBible) January 20, 2019

#Bono: “From FATHER to son, in one life has begun, a work that’s never DONE, from FATHER to son” #Jesus: “Our FATHER who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be DONE, on earth as it is in heaven.” Matt 6:9-10 RSV #U2 pic.twitter.com/wzTEgOILxj

— Bono’s Bible (@BonosBible) June 20, 2021

#Bono: “A work that’s never done... more so when they put me in the ground” #Genesis: “The ground will sprout thorns and weeds, you’ll get your food the hard way... Until you return to that ground yourself... you started out as dirt, you’ll end up dirt.” 3:17 MSG #U2 pic.twitter.com/4UVkH8ZGGT

— Bono’s Bible (@BonosBible) February 17, 2021
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