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I’m speaking this weekend at Riverview on God’s Will. And I’ve been thinking a lot about how people want to know God’s will, they want a sign, or an impression that tells this to do this or that etc… It seems that we are looking for supernatural guidance, when so much supernatural guidance has already been given (see “the Good Book”). We want to touch heaven, we want a miricle right now before our eyes. But that got me to thinking that maybe our world is all backwards. I mean, if you think about it, the miracle has happened. That God created the world and that things work (realizing the FALL). Maybe this is the magic. Maybe when God does do something supernatural, that is going back to the normative state, pre-creation. The miracle stops? for a second while God intervenes. I’m not sure where my thoughts are on this exactly right now. I’m still thinking about it a lot.

Here are some thoughts from the book Orthadoxy, by G.K. Chesterton.

“A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. IT may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we. The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore. Heaven may encore the bird who laid an egg…”

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Well I just want to post real quick before I work on this week’s message. Last night we got some visitors from New Song in Columbus, the Harger girls. It was really good to have them around. They are an awesome family. Our small group came over also, we are reading Blue Like Jazz. We got into an interesting discussion about Sin Nature vs. Adam’s sin being a snowball effect. I love it that we don’t always agree on things. It makes for really good conversations and leads to a reexamination of belief.

Jaden slept six hours straight last night, which was extraordinary. I fed him at nine and then talked to him and he smiled and laughed at me for about half an hour. It’s pretty cool.

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I got the ichin’ to create some music last night. But I didn’t have any finished songs, so I just wrote a song while recording. I laid down the acoustic track, and then I spat out some vocals/lyrics (i found God in the nick of time, he was about to knock me down…) and then some experimental electric guitars and finally some white noise.

I find that the new stuff that I’m writing might be less accessible to a broad audience, but there wasn’t much of an audience to begin with and I really like the experimentation.

It takes 24 hours to be “approved” on Soundclick.com. But tomorrow you should check it out and tell me what you think. Just click on “My Music” to the left. Remember, I wrote it while recording. One take, so don’t expect too much.

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So this is my attempt to appease the insurance man. Three steps is a long way down.

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Good News is…I just bought the most eagarly awaited, weird album of the year

The bad news is that (read comments in previous posts) there will be no Lollapalooza which really sucks.

Oh and more bad news…I’m sick with a cold.

and one more good thing…I just got my new Wilco shirt.

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So I’m listening to a mix of Van Morrison stuff and his song Madame Joy is one of the most soulful songs I’ve ever heard. It’s weird because most people have never heard of it, it wasn’t even released on a studio album, just an album of songs that never made it. The album is called The Philosopher’s Stone. And it’s my second most favorite Van album (I have 15 of his) next to Astral Weeks.

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Suz and I just bought tix along with Cisco and his girl Jen. Here’s the line up.
String Cheese Incident
Flaming Lips
Wilco
Gomez
Polyphonic Spree
TV for Radio

here’s a link

That’s what our night was like last night.

Jaden was still sick and couldn’t keep his food down on top of a cough and runnning a fever. So we called up the doc and he told us to take him to the ER.

The Emergency Room is a sick place. In the room that they put us in there were blood stains all over one of the seats and it looked like a room that I attempted to clean. We got there at 10pm and they finally sent us home at 5am. Crazy night.

There were stabbings, attacks, police inquiries, gross coughing and weezing, drunk talk, among other things. All the staff were very nice to us though. I think they were relieved to have a patient who wasn’t a victim of armed violence. He’s a baby so he gets some points that way also. Anyway, his fever went down and he started drinking and feeling better. But there is something in his blood called CRP which I think stands for CRAP (thanks Noel) and we had to bring him in to the doctor’s this morning to have that checked out and we will have to take him in next week just so they can keep an eye on him.

We are tired. I’m out.

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Do you ever wish that you could live ten lives, all in different places? I’m not up for moving every year (even though that’s been the case the last couple of years) but if I had unlimited time and circumstances, there are a few places that I wouldn’t mind trying out.

In one life I would be a local shopkeeper in some ancient European town. It would be a family business that I inherited from my family and one that I would pass on to my children when I died. Business would never be great. I wouldn’t even think about franchising. But it would be enough to get by on. It would be a town near the sea where I would meet my friends every morning at some little known restaurant. We’d sit on barstools and talk about the comercialization of the fishing industry over bitter coffee and toast. I would take walks with my family out to the country. The hills would glisten and greet us in the late afternoon as our kids would run on ahead and their rolling shadows would whisper goodnight on the way home. Our lives would be simple. There would be less plastic and more stone and cherry wood, more earth and less electricity. We would have a garden that we would eat from. We’d have warm bread and beef stew often, and trips to the candy store would be less common and more special. We wouldn’t travel much, just content to find all there is to know about our immediate surroundings.

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101.3=Jaden’s body temp. right now. Yeah, he was up all night screaming and coughing. No sleep for us. But we did take him to the doc today and got him some medicine.

Before we had a kid everyone told us “your life is going to change” like it was some huge mystery or something. It’s not, I’ll tell you right now how your life changes. You don’t sleep very much and you have a little kid that you love so much for no reason at all and you spend all of your time pushing buttons trying to figure out why he’s crying. Pretty simple.

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