Sunday

I'm wondering what the new album is about.

The need for hope in my life has been occurring more in my thoughts over the Christmas break. There comes a point when a person who keeps falling over the same issues has to decide to get up off the floor and live towards some unanswered question or longing as if the way they feel wasn't telling the whole truth about the future. Something in our spirits called hope helps us to imagine the way life could be, while experiencing life the way it is, and we remember that the sun is circling beneath our feet while we wait through the night. God's presence is described in Revelation as being like a sun that lights up the New Jerusalem with God's glow. If God is like the sun, then God must be moving swiftly beneath our feet while our nights pass.

Madeleine L'Engle writes through the eyes of one of her characters, Uncle Douglas, in The Moon By Night:

"So in my heathen way, Vicky, when I wasn't much older than you, I decided that God, a kind and loving God, could never be proved. In fact there are, as you've been seeing a lot lately, a lot of arguments against him. But there isn't any point to life without him. Without him we're just a skin disease on the face of the earth, and I feel too strongly about the human spirit to be able to settle for that. So what I did for a long time was to live life as though I believed in God. And eventually I found out that the as though had turned into a reality."

It's the living as though that is the choice I keep running into. I think the new album has got to be a part of my choosing to live as though the night cannot last forever.