You have to start somewhere! I finally took the initiative to start my own blog. I want take my first post and briefly explain where I intend to go with this blog.
I’m taking several of my greatest passions and I’m going to attempt to marry them. Music, Stories (or my experiences), Books, and God. First of all, that is extremely vague and I know that. I’m going to explain how I find God in daily life, where I have felt Him, and how I find him in my (some would say) obscure taste in music.
My passion for music lies in hardcore, metal, and indie music and all of their subgenres. I’m addicted to the energy and experience I receive while listening to and watching them. Bands might include Underoath, Norma Jean, Oh, Sleeper, Living Sacrifice, Project 86, As Cities Burn, and Sinai Beach. Even the less-well-known bands such as For Today, With Blood Comes Cleansing, and The Glorious Unseen (which actually isn’t metal or hardcore, but a more ambient/atmospheric worship band). If you don’t like the music, thats awesome! I plan on talking about books I’ve read too. Some of my favorite authors include John Eldredge, and Rob Bell.
My intentions are to show where I find God in all of this.
Did I lose anyone?
I’m sure I did. You’ll get the hang of it though.
I’ll leave you with two quotes.
“When everything is answered, it’s fake. The mystery is the truth” -Sean Penn
“God has spoken and the rest is commentary, right?” -Rob Bell
I Love You.
Ladies and Gentleman… my lovely wife.
Haha. (Uhm, read up.)
You’re right, Oh, Sleeper is amazing. It was actually my favorite song on the entire Fuel Sampler.
Oh, BTW, thanks for the comment and link!
Oh I know, they’re my personal favorite right now.
And hey, no problem! Thanks for visiting.
Just breezed in and saw your mention of With Blood Comes Cleansing. I have to confess that they didn’t appeal to me, but like a bad rash, they grew on me.
Perhaps not an analogy they would appreciate, but they are sure a cool band.
I am definitely curious about this The Glorious Unseen group you have mentioned a few times. I will check them out in future.
Awesome! I’m glad to hear it! Thanks man.
Your Sean Penn quote made me think of some excerpts from Chesterton’s Othodoxy I think you might find valuable or at the very least…thought provoking…
There is a notion adrift everywhere that imagination, especially mystical imagination, is dangerous to a man’s mental balance. . . . Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic; I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.
The general fact is simple. Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. . . . The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.
Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man has always been a mystic. He has permitted the twilight. He has always had one foot in earth and the other in fairyland. He has always left himself free to doubt his gods; but (unlike the agnostic of to-day) free also to believe in them. He has always cared more for truth than for consistency. If he saw two truths that seemed to contradict each other, he would take the two truths and the contradiction along with them. His spiritual sight is stereoscopic, like his physical sight: he sees two different pictures at once and yet sees all the better for that. (Chesterton, 1908)
Interesting blog you have, I shall continue reading.
I absolutely love that excerpt. I really, really liked what you have to say and I am flattered that you would continue to read my blog. Thank you so much for sharing, I’m glad you found interest.
I go to college 45 minutes from Rob Bell’s church.
No way! That rocks!!!!
Hehe, thought you’d like that.