New Song

Its the simple sophistication lost and lobbied off to war...
Its the simple investigations levied by a lovers chord
Please remember

All for dimpled conversations requisite for wanted things
splintered up by Marxist causes wed by wealth of wanted needs
Please remember
Please remember
Loss has its own regressive lines and she sleeps with me from time to time
No one has reason to know... but the losses are bigger alone

Oh for darning in the cold under privileged estate
walking fences all alone without advantages of grace
Please remember
waiting on the unwed proverbs of its never ending curse
wishing that the terms of progress would pay off this debtors purse
Please remember
Please remember
Loss has its own regressive lines and she sleeps with me from time to time
No one has reason to know... but the losses are bigger alone

Terms spent cures before me felt by privileged degrees
oh the cost of etiquette shared by all these pedigrees
Please remember
Work has paid itself in problems pent up in the pennies worth
Weathering the crux of causes paid verse after verse
Please remember
Please remember
Loss has its own regressive lines and she sleeps with me from time to time
No one has reason to know... but the losses are bigger alone


That These criticisms mounting as applied by my esteem
as I watch you improvise and act like you have everything you need
Please remember
That these versions of your victory have there own insightful death
That your sense of things has limits defined by Gods peculiar breath
Please remember
Please remember
Loss has its own regressive lines and she sleeps with me from time to time
No one has reason to know... but the losses are bigger alone
Please remember
Please remember
Please remember
Please remember

It is common to think that age deters ones perception of things, physical capacities or tangential willingness to accommodate. Sure enough, by and by age gives way to a nuanced objectivity subject to the narrowness of our own experiences. This is not to say that wisdom tends to disregard age, but this may be conditionally true. To say the former without qualification would be absurd given the many examples in which wisdom and age correspond. Truth is, the more experience is informed by the same kind of things the more it solidifies the experiences, sometimes in the face of reality in general, sometimes to spite reality just the same.
This reciprocation cycles through informing on the one hand and restraining on the other. While on the one hand we are capable of doing things and learning things, capacity doesn't necessarily give way to activity. In other words just because you can do something doesn't mean you do it. The same can be said about learning or thinking in general. Our capacities are very rarely realized.

No matter, I am getting older, the world is getting smaller and bigger simultaneously, only to throw me into a whirlwind of colliding arguments, ideals, and problems. It is not that you cannot find self-help books that are laden with add-ons and pick-me-ups for these kind of problems or older “friends” and siblings with commercial responses conditionally different than your own struggles. Its that people are talking without good sense. The very prevalence of the self-help boom emancipates a real, genuine problem everyone has and for which everyone has a solution. Talk about Irony.
The strange contradictions run so deep that I find people answering questions they have never asked while dealing arbitrarily with the questions they have asked. Honestly, it is hard to find people who take their own questions seriously; consequently, it is harder to find people with helpful advise than it is to find people willing to talk.

Comments on Worship

If worship entails a commendation extended to God in praise for the glorious kindness he has extended to us in grace then it would seem legitimate to worship God with one word, as I have heard popularized by worship leaders in our day, contingent upon the constitution of that word. I suppose that this could not be true if they meant what they said literally. Think for a moment, “Grace.” Is it possible to make any kind of reference to what you mean or what it's referent is with out other words? Isolating a word, is unhelpful given that it loses any signification and sense without a referent or extension.
It seems that on a very common level cognition has resonating symbols attached to particular significations and therefore a word may have implicit connotative and explicit denotative extensions, as well as anything in between. Commonly then, it would be difficult to restrain yourself to a repetitious activity prohibiting yourself to wonder into the connotative and denotative aspects; because, if the literal restriction is applied, any kind of definition offers new words to which you have resigned yourself. I suppose then these worship leaders mean something a bit more fluid like, “dwell on a word and allow the nuances of that ideal to consecrate worship to God.” This again would imply that other words are employed even in their pleas for simplistic mantras repeated exacting purpose-driven ignorance.
At the risk of sounding to harsh, why do resort to eloquence over substance, the seeming over the real, etc. Its not that these recommended verbal commendations eliminate worship altogether. It is that there are altogether more helpful things to say about what constitutes Biblical worship. Biblical worship has obvious grounding in the Scriptures having much to say about how to entreat the True God in a right way. Whatever the case may be, the trends popularized by worship leaders in our day tend to minimize cognitive functions and elevate sensual experience such that true worship is reduced and neutered.

Maturity

Maturity is oblong, especially for the Christian. It has to a greater or lesser degree sweeping connotations exacting respectively definite terms of manhood and womanhood. As much as I would like to appreciate the terms Westerners tend to associate with it, I cannot. These associations speak apprehensively about competence and certainty in all things which is something bound up in everything we are not. This is not to say we spurn responsibility or abuse opportunities given to us. I am saying the opposite with the caveat that we are failures embracing the victories Christ has won and set before us to walk into. For evangelicals, maturity is something sacred juxtaposed to something secular having affects that stretch into every domain of life. Where commonly, we tend to associate responsibility with lofty motions structured by tempered schedules and planned activities, planning for the sake of acquisition and entitlement is immoral. This is not to say planning itself is immoral, planning is good when it is suited with the realization that God sovereignly holds all things and brings them to pass or he does not. The problems with the Western appeals again and again invite arrogance and pride and given that we all desire to grow up I hope there are better connotations than these...