This weekend I went to see the movie “Walk the Line” based on the life of Johnny Cash. It portrays his struggles with coming to terms with a difficult childhood and other pressures. In the audition that launched Johnny on the road to success, Sam Phillips asks him this: If he were dying and had time to only sing one song, what would it be? That’s the song he wants to hear, and the song that Johnny needs to sing. It’s so true for all of us: we need to sing the song we were meant to sing. And when we do, it will surely sound right to everyone else.
The song he sings is “Folsom Prision Blues,” and although Johnny hasn’t actually spent time in jail (at that time), his song is authentic because he lives in another type of prison: a prison of his own making. Some of us encounter great difficulties in life, but we remain imprisioned when we let circumstances continue to dictate the thoughts we think and shape the course we take.
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