Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them”— before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain; when people rise up at the sound of birds, but all their songs grow faint; when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags itself along and desire no longer is stirred. Then people go to their eternal home and mourners go about the streets.
We put on our imagination caps in art class and went on a expedition to my backyard to gather drawings of the remains of the exotic wildlife for a scientific journal.
My cover art for Marshall Conn’s “Virtual Boy EP”.
Get ready world! Marshall Conn, front man of The Gott Mountain Boys, has been working on a solo project to tantalize your tastebuds! This acoustic set goes from La Dispute covers, to scathing criticisms of George Lucas, to emotional Pokemon themed ballads of tragic proportions.
Hear what the critics are saying:
“I’ve never experienced anything as epic as Marshall Conn’s ‘Virtual Boy EP’.” -Peter Jackson
“Marshall Conn is the voice of a generation!” -Deepak Chopra
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Experience the magic! January 2nd, 2012.
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…..at very least, it’s free. so go download it tomorrow. I will post a link.
“The tragedy of sin is not that you did something wrong, but that you left God”
The ultimate goal of Christianity is to know, follow, and worship God. The relationship between God and ourself is freeing, and intimate, and encouraging, and convicting, and purifying. It’s wonderful, and it’s terrible that many Christians, myself included, can turn our relationship with God into something that brings us shame and guilt. There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ, but instead of focusing on the love of God, many Christians use feelings of condemnation a motivator to live a holy life.
I pray we have the same attitude as Paul; “But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead.”
“There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.”
-Pythagoras
Stream of Consciousness:
One of the most beautiful things in the world to me is Fluid Mechanics. Let me preface by saying I take a Libertarian view of free will, but every act and movement of any liquid can be traced back to a previous set of actions, a sort of Determinism. There is a certain set of conditions (the temperature of the liquid, the density of said liquid, atmospheric conditions, kinetic energy of the liquid, gravity, active bodies within the liquid, etc.) and because of those conditions, the liquid can only take one specific course.
Have you ever tried to guess what that course will be? Have you ever tried to guess how the waves of the ocean will break? Or how the water out of a shower head will splash as it hits the floor?
Chaos Theory tells us that there is some order to what seems to be random, but I can spend hours staring at a fountain and not find the pattern.
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Everything in Science points to some quality of the Creator.
Think about it.
God is the source of all beauty. He is also the source of all order, however imperceptible it may be.
“When He talks of their losing their selves He only means abandoning the clamor of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back their personality, and boasts that when they are wholly His they are more themselves than ever.” -Screwtape #13 I believe things about myself that aren’t true.
God is teaching me who I really am. He is teaching me what really satisfies and how to love myself.
