I've never liked music as much as I have lately. In fact, I don't just like music anymore, I love it. I now notice how much it effects me. It has really been speaking to me and moving me in ways in which other people have spoke about in the past, but I've never experienced for myself. There are many secular artists that encourage me spiritually and can be considered "prophets"... as PM always calls U2 and just recently called John Mayer. Well, even though I still love Mraz, DeGraw, Mayer, and Tolcher....It's currently Jack Johnson that has been speaking to me through his music...Even as I'm blogging this, I'm hearing his song "Where'd all the good people go?" Oh how many times I have wondered that when I'm dealing with hard to deal with people at work or just around me. Yet, just when you start losing hope about people, that's when God does something amazing.

When my friend brought the J.J. album over to my desk at work and I put it in my CD player, I felt like I was dreaming. I felt like I was in one of those dreams that I've never experienced myself but that I have seen in movies ~ one where there are rolling hills and then there's someone spinning around with their arms wide open, with their face looking upward toward heaven. After listening to it a few times through, I looked down, and the album is called In between dreams.

One thing in his song called Never Know, that I think all of us go through is the thought and experience of:

We're breaking and rebuilding and we're growing, always guessing

Another part of the song that speaks to me is:

Never knowing
We're shocking but we're nothing
We're just moments, we're clever but we're cellulose
We're just human, amusing and confusing
We're trying, but where is this all leading?
We'll never know

I can think of the countless times that I have wondered:

• What is the right thing to do?
• What is the way in which I can share the love of God to the greatest degree?
• What is the way in which God would be the most pleased?
• What is it that I should be doing, hoping, and wishing for?

Even though I don't have the answers to these, it's all about learning. I can see that there are choices that we have in this world and in our everyday lives.

We can choose to:
Stand on our own or fall on our faces before God
Make our own choices or seek the Lord's guidance
Continually fail in our trials or allow our friends and God to help us conquer them
Be deaf or hear the things people are speaking to us
Close our eyes to the world or open them to see how the Spirit is moving
Feed ourselves crap or taste the heavenly fruits
Be numb to ourselves and this world or feel how God is able to work within us

These are the things that we can choose, that we don't have to guess what is the right answer. These are the things we know, we just need to make the choice to do them.