It was a regular day at Guitar Center... or so I thought... I was sitting jamming with a Marcus Miller Jazz Bass, my dream bass customized by one of my favorite jazz artists, and I looked up and saw the most UGLY telecaster I've ever laid my eyes on... the Joe Strummer Telecaster (I don't know what the deal is about the "Artist series" guitars that draw my attention, but it must be a strong attraction because they're so expensive) and as ugly as it was, it was beautiful to me. So I put up the slick and glossy bass to pick up the the old dirty guitar and get acquainted with it. So worn-out and used-looking, but it was the most dashing guitar I've seen in a while... I began my examination. First thing was it's vintage style outward appearance. The rusted magnets on the pickups, the horrible paint-job, but I've been told the inside is what really matters. The second thing I noticed was the tag said "single-coil pickups"... Praise God... I love the way those single-coil pickups sound... If you really want to hear them, check out the All of the Above version of Break Free and indulge in the opening line and bridge... Then the third thing that stuck out was it's over-all trance that drew me in... dare I say it, like a moth to the flame... I plugged it into a Line 6 amplifier to see if what my heart was telling me was true. I set everything up- distortion, tuning, volume- and then (the moment of fate) I strummed an Am... and it was nothing short of fireworks. I began playing all of those songs with single-coil pickup guitars on that thing and I think I fell in love... It sounded amazing... The second I got home I rushed to the Fender website and checked all the specs... Perfect, just perfect... God had been looking out for me... I knew if I waited He would bring the perfect guitar for me... Osm, God! Now for the girl! (Just kidding, Ally)
But that was a long time ago and I haven't seen it around lately. (How can you have such a magical moment like that and then disappear??) I decided to google it and see what it had been up to. I found out that there was a dramatic price drop and she was available... But it's not like I can pull $950 out of my face... So, again, I'll have to wait, but I'm perfectly fine with it. I'll live these next few years without it and enjoy the single-guitar life. :)
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The Real Version of You...
...Valentines day...
I don't know what the big deal is about it. It's just a big marketing scam! Did you know that Valentines day brings in about $14 billion in the US alone? And I' m not saying that it's wrong to celebrate Love or whatever... It's just that love has lost enough value to where it's used to just pull in cash and a prayer for a fat flying baby that likes to shoot at you... (Don't worry, I'm getting somewhere with this...) Maybe there is something more to it than that?
Let's get real...
I'm reading this book called "Crazy Love" by a guy named Francis Chan. He's just some pastor at a huge church in California that founded a college called Eternity Bible College... Oh yeah, he sits on the board of directors of Children's Hunger Fund and World Impact... yep, just some guy... and he's got some pretty interesting perspectives. He says, you love your wife/girlfriend/husband/boyfriend and you don't forget it... You just don't. I'm pretty sure my Mom isn't sitting around one day and goes, "Oh, yeah! I've fallen madly in love with Nick! Silly me, I forgot!" Dumb right? Not really, because we do that with God ALL THE TIME. I am a master. I can go worship Him on Sunday and forget Him the next morning... guilty as charged... More specifically after a camp or something, once I get off the high or the "hang-over" of a camp experience, I tend to go back to my normal life unchanged... The thing is, when you're insanely, purely, and honestly IN LOVE with someone, you, subconsciously, leave no room for apathy. As human beings, we were created by God to fall wildly in love with Him, but since we are not perfect, we tend to give our God-given love to other things. Money? Drugs? Boys/Girls (If you know what I mean)? Maybe even "less horrible" things. Music? Other people? Happiness? Whatever it is, we worship it and love it unconditionally... But what about God? Have you ever been in a situation where you met a guy/girl and just loved him/her. You just fell for them and passionately and purely pursued them and prayed for them and gave your heart to them, but they spat in your face? Or (even worse in my opinion) they said, "Yeah, I like you, let's go out, You're an amazing person!", then they don't commit themselves to you, blow off dates, treat you like you don't really mean anything to them? IT'LL TEAR YOU APART! It hurts, don't it? What if you sacrificed your son just save your relationship with your spouse and then it still wasn't working out?
God did... And we forget about our deep personal love affair with Him? Some love affair...
James 4:8 says "Draw near to God and He'll draw near to you..." I think God was saying that we should take the first step in this relationship. He desperately wants us. He knows it, we know it. The real question is, Do we want it?
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Let's start a revolution, shall we??
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-God bless
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"When city's fall, they build them up, much taller than they ever were..." :)
Wow! What to say to that! I hope you really were kidding...
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