014 - Fortress Around Your Heart

This episode is a little bit different, friends. Today we’re taking a deep dive into an 80’s song, which Mary discovered thanks to BMG music service in the 90’s (remember that?). 

Fortress Around Your Heart by Sting (a.k.a. Gordon Sumner) has been one of Mary’s favorite songs for a lot of years, so we go through the poetic and multi-layered lyrics to ask ourselves how they can apply to us. Listen to the original here or check out this very artistic and moody video here.

Both Mary and Alexis were lucky enough to travel to Europe with their community choirs last summer, and they talk about the history of the land, the Fields of Gold, and the beauty of the ruins we saw. We don’t always know how or why something is destroyed, but it can still have tremendous value to us today. Even building in our imaginations, like Inception, has value–when we don’t let it become a prison.  

We may find ourselves being ensnared by the battles we’ve invented inside our heads, and the mines we’ve laid for ourselves. What kind of relationship do you have with yourself? How do we protect our hearts? What kind of fortresses do we have? Are we willing to build bridges?

Our Better Betty Challenge for today is to figure out what kind of bridge you want to build. Please share pictures of your favorite bridges, tag us @thebettyspodcast and tell us how you will be connecting with others, what your flag looks like, and how you feel about Sting. We're also on Facebook as The Bettys Podcast, and on Twitter @bettys_podcast

 

“The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.”

—M. Scott Peck

“It is important for God to arrange our circumstances in such a way that we eventually have to face ourselves.”

–Joyce Meyer, Battlefield of the Mind

 

Here’s a link to Mary’s cover of the song on Youtube, and coming soon to Spotify. The incredible piano arrangement is by Daniel Blomberg and this song was mixed and produced by Landon Alley at Noisebox Studios in Provo, Utah. 

 

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Our dear Bettys and Jacks, we hope you will tear down the walls of your own fortresses. Build those bridges, set those battlements on fire, and let people in. There is beauty in ruins. 

P.S. If you need a good laugh, check out Our Flag Means Death on HBOMax

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