Making Sense. Meanwhile,don't replace me.

In the midst of writing another research paper, this time on Romantic landscape artists and their way of looking at nature as a way to encounter transcendence, I'm drawn to this song by Clueso. Maybe because the artists that I'm studying so wanted to make sense of their world that was rapidly changing in empirical demands. So I don't speak German but this band's music has me dancing alone in my room, so the music is worth listening to for itself. Then again, maybe I just have the hots for the lead singer and that's why I'm addicted to this song? Groupie lusting aside, the point is its theme seems to pulse with questions that I've been asking myself for the past few months in particular. While the song has an obvious romantic overtone to it, I find it has a sense of sacred place in the context of the sermon messages that my pastor at North Wake and Timothy Keller have been exhorting me as I go through the days. In the case of North Wake, I'm studying Deut. as I go through the series, making sense of love, fear, idolatry and obedience. Making sense of what it means to be faithful. In the NT, Tim Keller's message on Galatians 5, the lusts of the Spirit and the lusts of the flesh are warring with each other. I know this because personally not only because Scripture declares it to be so but because my heart is the battlefield. Then, the Summit Church, JD Greer is exhorting the power of the Holy Spirit. Three different pastors. All using different books and authors, yet One Gospel. Yet, a unity, a continuity within me. I love how Clueso's video is based in the water. Long story short, I went swimming and got caught in the rip tide where there were powerful waves, so fierce that it broke my board ties and ground me into the ocean floor far below. I'm a naturally strong swimmer, but what I experienced in there of the ocean humbled me. It was an elemental force that is lost to words. But in the dark below, despite my fear, I felt the presence of God, calming me, leading me to safety when I couldn't pull myself out by my own strength. Now, It's been a process being here, working and traveling alone. Somethings, it's all too easy to do somethings, other times, it's been a long night. Through the grace of God's Spirit, I've found peace. It's been a process of making sense, of losing myself to either idols or the living God. And it goes on. The Winner: "All in all, what they say, there's something to all the things they say No matter who comes, no matter who goes, no matter, it doesn't matter I believe nothing, I believe in you, do you believe in me, I believe I do that too I ask myself, I ask you, but I don't ask: "Do you ask yourself too?" I am, you are, we are in the process to loose ourselves Am I, are you, are we in the process to loose ourselves? I am, you are, we are in the process to loose ourselves Am I, are you, are we in the process to loose ourselves? It maybe works easier than easy, easier than the things that were Easier than easy, it's not far from here to the things that have not yet been Do you search for me, than I search for you, is the temptatiopn big enough I'll allow this, come, allow it, come, let's do it one more time I don't give up, do you come with me, do you come with me to face each other? Does nothing come to your mind? Come, don't replace, come, don't panic, calm yourself. I ask myself, I ask you, but I don't ask: "Do you ask yourself too?"I am, you are, we are in the process to loose ourselves? Am I, are you, are we in the process to loose ourselves?"

If only wrestling were like this today...