::: someone stop this train :::

These days, with life moving at top speed, I have to remind myself that this moving forward, this leap from one day to the next, is God's design. He had a reason for creating the tempo of our lives the way He did. While I was home today alone, feeling very strange about the fact that my kids are growing and changing and are currently scattered all over the country, this song by John Mayer leaked out of my iTunes and into my brain. While my flesh tells me that I want to stop this train, that I don't like the bags under my eyes and the gray in my hair and the steady decrease in energy, my spirit tells me that it's good that this train is moving forward.

No, I'm not color blind
I know the world is black and white
Try to keep an open mind but...
I just can't sleep on this tonight


Stop this train I want to get off and go home again
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can't
But honestly won't someone stop this train


Don't know how else to say it, don't want to see my parents go
One generation's length away
From fighting life out on my own


Stop this train
I want to get off and go home again
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can't but honestly won't someone stop this train


So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun
Had a talk with my old man
Said help me understand
He said turn 68, you'll renegotiate
Don't stop this train
Don't for a minute change the place you're in
Don't think I couldn't ever understand
I tried my hand
John, honestly we'll never stop this train


Once in a while when it's good
It'll feel like it should
And they're all still around
And you're still safe and sound
And you don't miss a thing
'til you cry when you're driving away in the dark.


Singing stop this train I want to get off and go home again
I can't take this speed it's moving in
I know I can't
Cause now I see I'll never stop this train

John Mayer