So, I go in spells of thinking pretty hard about stuff in my life and then I stop after a while and just live without much thinking on my ethics. When I say that, I dont mean that I go crazy or anything, being an anarchist, I just kind of live without putting much thought into the motives of my actions. This can be good because at some point I get into a groove where I dont think about what I am trying to improve about myself and just do it, and other times I fall back into some bad habits. A few examples, by the end of my basketball playing for this year, I had stopped worrying a lot about fouls, making excuses, and I had been playing the game with a mentally tougher attitude. That just became habit. However I also worked on not getting angry at mistakes, and kind of forgot about improving on that til it popped up again recently.
So I realized that my attitude towards people isnt always great, and I dont always want to talk to certain people, getting annoyed easily and stuff. (If you are reading this and are like 'is that me he is annoyed at?', its probably not so dont worry. I know how crushing having someone as awesome as me being annoyed at you must be). So what passage did I happen to stumble upon in my Bible reading? 1 Corinthians 13. Oh jjeeeezzz, the chapter about "twue wuv"(picture the priest in princess bride). So, if you need a reminder, and I would encourage you to read this passage to check on what I say, but it starts saying that we can know it all, give ourselves up for God, but dont have love, we have nothing. Then it goes on to that cliche wedding passage about love being kind, not rude, boastful, arrogant, selfish, IRRITABLE,or resentful. Rejoices in the truth, believes, hopes, and endures. Now, I dont know greek or anything, but I'm 99 percent sure the love talked about in this passage is not the husband and wife stuff, this is the 2nd most important commandment, love your neighbor as yourself kind of love. And I fail. Thank God for grace. I have done all of those things wrong on that list, and nothing I could do on my own would ever save me, but the thing that hit me was, the highlighted bit, irritable. I realized that I havent been loving people very well recently, and I'd like to say I'm sorry. I'm going to work on it, *sigh* no matter who the person is. Yeah, this is not going to be easy, and probably none of you will notice. But the Big Guy will.
Im trying to keep on writing music, and I decided to use Gary Lightbody and Aud Fauce as major influences, at least in some of my songs. Both have some simple aspects, some complicated aspects, and pretty sweet lyrics. I am a sucker for simplicity, it has always been easiest for me to worship with straighforward songs with meaningful lyrics. I'm not one for repeating simple lines, I like some thought in what I'm singing. But at the same time I like some complexity amid the simple. Sounds weird I know, but i mosly mean like complex bridges, underlying guitar parts, that kind of thing. So I am working on adding those elements to my songs. It's cool, but its weird because I find myself stopping in my flows and changing progressions a lot more than usual. Hopefully the result is satisfactory.
I hope you enjoyed a more thoughtful blog, I didnt feel like giving you the boring aspects of my whole day. Listen to "Moving Mountains" by thrice to hear some nice 1 Corinthians 13 action
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