A Theme for Music, a Theme for Life

Yup... Those are my brothers.

I am blessed to have two brothers who know me very well, and each gave me iTunes gift cards for Christmas (Jonny also gave me Rickle’s Pickles, but I think they deserve a post all to themselves). I was a little slow redeeming those cards, but after I started purchasing my music, I realized that there is definitely a theme to the songs I purchased. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that it is more than just a theme that runs through my music, but it’s a theme that runs through my life: HOPE.

Resolutions 2013

New year, new resolutions. I don't know if I am alone in this, but whenever I make resolutions, they usually last one, two, maybe three months and then they fall to the wayside. Life gets in the way, or maybe it's just hard to keep them. This year my resolution is to find Happiness in the little things and not get so stressed out. This seems vague and challenging, but to quote Barney Stinson: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

Deserves... not demands...

Last week, after music rehearsal for Sunday's Mass I mentioned that the Solemnity of Christ the King is my favorite day in the liturgical year besides the obvious Christmas and Easter. My fellow musicians asked me why and my initial response was because this is the day that we celebrate Christ as King, we give him the praise that he rightly deserves. After I made my theology need comment I walked out and continued to think about this.

After further reflection, I'm realizing why I really like this day, it's not all the pomp and circumstance that our Savior deserves, but I love it because he doesn't ask for it. When he emptied himself to come to earth from his throne in heaven, he didn't do it expecting praise and glory, but rather he did it out of love.
Maybe I like this day so much because I know it's a day where liturgically and musically we get to praise Christ for his kingship and we get to give him honor that he deserves.

But it doesn't end here.

Humility and Love

It’s been a rough few months where I have had to come to terms with all the change going on in my life. The life of a student that I have known for… oh I don’t know… the last 21 years, has come to an end and I have been thrown into the workplace. The independence I’ve know living away from home has dwindled because I now live with my parents again. My spiritual life has been changing and maturing. I have been changing and maturing as an adult and on my spiritual journey. And it all has to do with love.

Superheros and Spirituality

Maybe it's my obsession with fairy tales and theology, which leads me to see theology in any good versus evil story. After seeing The Dark Knight Rises and watching many Smallville episodes, I have also come to see theology in our famed superheros.

I wish I would have been the one to write this out, but since I haven't been writing much of anything lately I will just link to someone else's insights on the relationship between superheros and theology.

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