...Trying to Stop an Echo

So this is going to be something more of a collection of thoughts instead of one post. I've had a whole mess of things on my mind and haven't found a way to make sense of them so I'm going to throw them all out at once and hope something is taken from it.

First off is my disgust with the media. And by media I mean the news. I think it's a sad statement about America that our top 2 news stories for a week have been the body of Anna Nicole Smith and Britney Spears gone crazy. I've tried to come up with a good reason to personally care about either story but I can't find one. Celebrity in America makes me sick. Our complete fascination with the messed up lives of others. It's the concept of reality TV. So we can watch other people who are slightly more messed up then we are. I don't turn on the news to hear about Britney and her shaved head. People of the world, get over it. No matter how famous someone else is they still have problems. It's not a new concept. Money doesn't buy happiness.

Ok, now that I've gotten that off my chest...

I've started working on a video/photography project of beauty and chaos in the world. Just stills and video of everyday life. I've started taking notice of beauty that's around us everyday. I'm astonished that more people, with a belief in God as the creator, don't take time to really live in the beauty of his creation. They don't take time to thank him for what he's given them. We take our surroundings for granted and that's because as long as we've lived they always been there.

As I was flipping through a book of some poems by Robert Frost I came across this poem called God's Garden.

"God's Garden"
By Robert Frost

God made a beauteous garden
With lovely flowers strown,
But one straight, narrow pathway
That was not overgrown.
And to this beauteous garden
He brought mankind to live,
And said: "To you, my children,
These lovely flowers I give.
Prune ye my vines and fig trees,
With care my flowerets tend,
But keep the pathway open
Your home is at the end."
Then came another master,
Who did not love mankind,
And planted on the pathway
Gold flowers for them to find.
And mankind saw the bright flowers,
That, glitt'ring in the sun,
Quite hid the thorns of av'rice
That poison blood and bone;
And far off many wandered,
And when life's night came on,
They still were seeking gold flowers,
Lost, helpless and alone.

O, cease to heed the glamour
That blinds your foolish eyes,
Look upward to the glitter
Of stars in God's clear skies.
Their ways are pure and harmless
And will not lead astray,
Bid aid your erring footsteps
To keep the narrow way.
And when the sun shines brightly
Tend flowers that God has given
And keep the pathway open
That leads you on to heaven.


So I didn't have as much to say as I thought. If it's warm wherever you are, take some time to enjoy nature. One day it might no be there.

Grace Thinks I'm a Failure

I've reconnected with Brandtson. I put on The Emo Diaries Vol 2 and listened to Holly Park and that was enough for me to brush the dust of the cd's and give them a listen. I haven't heard the last 3 records they've put out but I really really like the first 3 (and Holly Park is a fantasic song). It seems that I tried so hard to esacpe being called emo that I quit listening to a lot of good records. But of course what was emo when I was in high school and what's emo now aren't really the same.

I've gotten a couple of e-mails (including some hate mail) that let me know I'm going in the right direction with my life and this blog, which is good. I'm trying not to be a BFOD. I'm trying not to stand up on my soapbox and preach my opinion. My goal is to share basically what God is showing me everyday. I try to be honest and not hold anything back and yes it's offensive to some but that's alright. My job is not to please people. Entertain... maybe but not please.

All this to say thanks to those who read and thanks to those who leave comments (good or bad).

2 John 1: 6
"Love means doing what God has commanded us, and he has commanded us to love another, just as you heard from the beginning."