Boy Like Me/Man Like You

With a new online music account, I've been listening a lot to this song recently - that i used to listen to a lot 20 years ago, in an albumn "The world, as best as I remember it" 

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Boy Like Me/Man Like You

Song by Rich Mullins

You was a baby like I was once

You was cryin' in the early mornin'

You was born in a stable Lord

Reid Memorial is where I was born

They wrapped you in swaddling clothes

Me they dressed in baby blue

Well, I was twelve years old in the meeting house

Listening to the old men pray

Well, I was tryin' hard to figure out

What it was that they was tryin' to say

There you were in the temple

They said, "You weren't old enough to know the things you knew"

Well did you grow up hungry?

Did you grow up fast?

Did the little girls giggle when you walked past?

Did you wonder what it was that made them laugh?

And did they tell you stories 'bout the saints of old

Stories about their faith

They say stories like that make a boy grow bold

Stories like that make a man walk straight

And you was a boy like I was once but was you a boy like me

Well I grew up around Indiana

You grew up around Galilee and if I ever really do grow up

Lord, I wanna grow up and be just like you

Well did you wrestle with a dog

And lick his nose?

Did you play beneath the spray of a water hose?

Did you ever make angels in the winter snow?

And did they tell you stories 'bout the saints of old

Stories about their faith

They say stories like that make a boy grow bold

Stories like that make a man walk straight

Did you ever get scared

Playing hide and seek?

Did you try not to cry when you scraped your knee?

Did you ever skip a rock across a quiet creek?

And did they tell you stories 'bout the saints of old

Stories about their faith

They say stories like that make a boy grow bold

Stories like that make a man walk straight

And I really may just grow up

And be like you someday

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: David Strasser / Richard Mullins

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Where my story seems to connect with, or maybe has grown out of, this man's song:

• Wistful Title, states just enough, & no more. Draws me into a way of being in God's world. The Jesus way. And brings to mind a little phrase I got from a book on ethics once that saw the source of Christian (& to some extent, Judaism, that Christianity has grown out of) Ethics to be "like father, like son":

•  Adam was not just a creation, but a "son of God", that is what gave him the right to rule over God's world and its creatures. 

• "You shall be holy, for I am holy". 

• The Lord your God is just, slow to anger and abounding in loving-kindness to all his creatures. … But you have neglected justice and mercy.

• God & Jonah: you cared for a plant that you did nothing to help bring about… & you are upset that I cared for thousands of ignorant people and animals.

• "Lord, I wanna grow up and be just like you

"grow up & be like you someday"

• "did they tell you stories 'bout the saints of old

Stories about their faith

They say stories like that make a boy grow bold

Stories like that make a man walk straight"

• What's Rich's story?

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