because I can be crazy & still be Christian...

So I figure that I'll never NOT love this song. I just wanted to voice my opinion to the blogging world that I don't always feel under compulsion to write "mini-sermons" or songs. This is true, see sometimes I would rather read, listen to &/or even study other people's sermons or songs ;)

I bet you thought I was going to say I'd just rather do other things, didn't you? :P

WELL, truth be told I just wanted to express to the world that I want to marry the kind of person that is like a child. (I said "Like" so don't go thinking I'm weird.. re-read the sentence first lol.) I want to be like a child in so many ways. I am called to be a man, & yet.. in the struggle of all that.. I am still called to live out & strive toward a child-like faith. There are so many ways that being like a child really can help us when you think about it. Here's the trouble for many today.. even if you want to seek out that paradoxal place of being a man & yet also seeking a childlike spirit in ways... you often find yourself with an uptight woman that will not allow herself to ever be like a child in any way. She wants merely to achieve the uttermost independence & in the process she will ruin your life & soul with that very independence without even so much as realizing it until it's too late for the both of you. I say "the both of you" because she will end up ruining herself too via not being able to have any kind of productive human relationship in her own life because of this overwhelming desire for independence. This sounds like such an extreme scenario, but only because it is in words. You can find this scenario played out in a thousand different lives & a thousand different actions daily. (I realize the polar opposite is also possible.. but frankly in today's world it's more possible to end up with an independent minded/power hungry woman that lives as if she is her own God & that you should let her be your function God as well)... (It is also worth noting that the opposite can happen as well.. this isn't just applicable to guys. I am a guy though.. so you're getting MY PERSPECTIVE!)

I simply will not have such a thing. It is better to be single than have that. Nevertheless, if God wills it.. I will happily lower myself to the ranks of doing such "unacceptable" things as singing duets like this with my wife in front of people. What is "acceptable" anyway? Do I listen to post-modern society to learn of what is truly & rightly acceptable? Why should I? Post-modern society doesn't even accept that truth can be fully known half of the time so why should I think that they have the truth on what is acceptable?

Don't get me wrong, I surely don't intend to get rich & buy my parents a home in the south of France. I don't intend to get rich & give everybody nice sweaters while teaching them how to dance either.. but I do intend to love people all of the days of my life. Sometimes love... no scratch that.. usually love.. no ALWAYS love calls for not weighing whether a particular act of compassion, or service, or gratitude or empathy, or affection will make you look like a fool (or child) before hand. In fact, love just calls you to love. It throws the balancing act of scales & pros & cons out of the window.. there is no chance to consider momentary reactions of others.. only the reaction of your own mind & soul & body saturated in that very love. This in itself is also quite comical because even in considering your bodily reaction to a choice to love.. in true love.. you will not really be considering it with the idea of benefit to self. It's also worth mentioning that the process will be involuntary almost as your whole being.. in truth & spirit is soaked with love. Under this compulsion, personal gain.. or desire of any kind but to love will be as an ant lying crippled & defenseless.. waiting to be crushed.

It is this saturation that drives you to action... because.. in fact.. you are so saturated with love that there is no longer any room for any other type of consideration or weighing of the "if/then" factor.

Many would dare to call me crazy for this stance because they simply can't understand the philosophy behind it. They would call me crazy because it takes risks to live with the faith of a child... and sometimes it also means actually looking like you are unsophisticated (GASP!). Who cares? I know I don't! Do I care what side of my plate the salad silverware goes? I don't even like salad. There, I said it!

Do you like salad? This isn't really about salad, so just tell me what your "salad" is that disrupting you from breaking the societal mold of copies. You don't want to tell me, do you? I think it's because you would first have to really tell yourself what it is.. and that might actually lead you to DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!!!

I only talk about the hard things because I love you. Even if I don't know you, I love you. And I want to prove that love... just as Christ proved his for me. I dare you to share a problem with me or to tell me what you really think about a controversial issue.. or how you really feel about you family or what's really going on in your life that you don't want anyone else to know about!!! I dare you to tell me.. because I want to help you the way that Christ helped & is helping & will continue to help me. I want you to see that little bit from me & then go running to that unsurpassed, mega-huge, dump truck load of LOTS of help that HE gives. I want you to admit that you are thirsty.. even in ways that you have never known. I want to help you find food for the hunger that abodes with that thirst.. and then show you the one that will make you never thirst again!!!! You don't even know it now maybe.. just like I didn't for some time.. but YOU just might be living "dehydrated & malnourished" without even knowing. Maybe it's because it's all you've ever truly known. There is a better way though. There is a door. HE is the way. Who is he? I dare you to ask me!!!

: )