Through The Eyes of Redemption

I love media. I spend many hours reading, watching, listening, and playing all the many different forms of media. You name it and I have probably done it. I read books through my phone, watch movies through netflix and blockbuster, play videogames, experience board games, read comics and manga. I love the ability that media has to influence my emotions. Then these emotions challenge me to think, to dwell over how my redeemed spirit and mind should feel about these emotions. All these forms of media not only challenge my spirit to engage with the Creator but give me a greater range of allegories to draw others into His arms. One quality that I do not see outside of God but I constantly see in media is the idea of being redeemed. Redemption can only exist with one person being stronger, smarter, bigger, BETTER then the other. You have to above someone to be able to redeem them. The ultimate archetype for this is God. There also has to be a willingness by the one redeemed. You can not be redeemed out of something that you feel is the best for you. You must realize that you need redemption to be redeemed.

This is the mindset I have when I view media. I look for something that engages my soul, my mind, my heart or points to an ultimate idea of redemption. In the future I plan on writing on different forms of media from this point of view.

Song Roulette 1

I have decided that journaling online is useless when I already journal to my wife every day when I tell her basically everything. So I will use this blog to occasionally record my thoughts but I am gonna first try to maybe a few semi-regular articles. The first one I want to do is called Song Roulette. I am an avid music fan and love just listening to music whenever I have a chance. Sometimes there is a song that just strikes me as powerful. Typically this is because of lyrics but sometimes it revolves around the music and lyrics. In Song Roulette, I will put all my music on random and then write about whatever song plays that I think would be good to write about. This will be similar to one of those writing exercises in english class. I won't conform myself to only write during the length of the song, but I will will try to keep it brief so I can write about more then one song.

Freedom Reigns by Jason Upton

This song holds a very special place in my heart, but then again any song off of the Faith album by Jason Upton does. Faith was only the second worship album I remember listening too over and over(the first being Passion's Our Love Is Loud). I know every song on the cd and it always lifts my spirits and challenges me. This is also when I fell in love with Jason Upton. The message in his music and the lyrics he writes have always spoken to me. Possibly even to the point where I unconsciously tried to look like him(I have been told a few times that I look like him). I have always tried to catch his concerts and have seen him a few times at Onething at IHOP KC. Something about him just makes me feel like we sometimes connect to God in a similar way, which really helps me connect with God through worship.