Monday, September 20, 2010

4AM...


"There's a fire in my soul"--Ridgely



4Am and I'm sitting in Waffle House by the St. Louis airport waiting for a 7am flight. I was at this Waffle House the first day of Urbana09 just before my tribe came in.

Victor Hugo just said to me, "The only spectacle greater than the sky is the interior of the soul."




Its humbling to look at the sky, especially at night. The psalmist tells us, "The heavens declare the glory of the Lord."

I dream of flying to the Pleiades. I long to soar through the supernovae. To delve the mysteries of dark matter.

It is nothing short of epic.

It would be devastating and dehumanizing to look into the sky and feel dwarfed without the knowledge that it was created by a loving God. As grand as the stars are, as brilliant and magnificent, and as immeasurable and vast and countless as they are, God still loves us more.

It was you and I created in His image, not the Orion Nebula.


It was us He chose to love, redeem, and sanctify not Eta Carina.


It is our souls that He binds together with an even tighter bond than the gravity that binds the Pleiades.



What deeper connection than two souls bound together in their Creator.

For the soul is that kindle of the imperishable Secret Fire ignited within us and love is the warmth and light that connection makes. As the great Bill Mallonee sings:

"Love's the little bit of God there for all to know.
Love's the everlasting arms, that never do let go."

It was in love that God promised us to reign with Him likes the stars above, and provided the means for us to do so, and that is by His own body and blood. His very own Son.

"To write the poem of the human consciousness," continues Hugo, "of one only man, even the most insignificant of men, would be to swallow up all epics in a superior and definitive epic."


Saturday, September 11, 2010

15 Albums


Fifteen albums in fifteen minutes. My music is more obscure therefore its cooler than yours, therefore I'm cooler than you. Not really. Yes. Really.


1. The Awakening Compilation Vol. 1 by Various



2.Ohio by Over the Rhine


3. AM Radio by Billy Cerveny


4. Alive in the Fall by Jason Harwell



5. The High Cost of Living by Mike Schmid

6. October Sky by Jon Black

7. Nashville to Jesus by Kevin Lawson

8. Summershine by Bill Mallonee and Vigilantes of Love

9. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco

10. All that you Can't Leave Behind by U2

11. The Bends by Radiohead

12. Truth of the World: Welcome to the Show by Evermore

13. Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack by Yoko Kanno

14. Chrono Trigger Sountrack by Yasunori Mitsuda

15. Seiken Densetsu Soundtrack by Kenji Ito



But enough about me, you talk about me now. Not really, I'd like to know yours. Your turn. Now....... GO!