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Save the trees and kill the children

February 1st, 2009 Curtis 2 comments

One of my favorite musical groups is casting crowns. Back in 2005 the released their Lifesong album. Lifesong, of couse being one of the biggest songs in the CCM genre that year. One of the songs on that album that I liked from the beginning but never really put much thought into is the song “While you were sleeping.” It’s a song about how history repeats itself: how nation after nation misses what’s important. The first city, Bethlehem, welcomed the Savior of the world to the world, but yet still couldn’t make room for him.

Oh Bethlehem, you will go down in history as a city with no room for its king.

The second city, Jerusalem didn’t have room to hear what Jesus had

Jerusalem, you will go down in history as a city with no room for its king.

The song finally hits home when it turns its focus to the United States of America and how we’re so caught up in being politically correct that we are no better than the nations and cities who rejected Jesus and his teachings. One of my favorite lines in the whole song is:

…As we’re sound asleep by philosophies of save the trees and kill the children.

I didn’t understand the significance of that line the first few times I heard it. But I was in church today listening to the pastor’s message and it made me think of. How messed up is our society in that it will stand up for endangered animals or the preservation of wildlife and trees, but yet, that same society will stand up for the right to kill unborn babies? And what’s worse? People don’t see a problem with this thinking. It’s no wonder the song ends asking the questions:

America what will we miss while we are sleeping? Will Jesus come again and leave us slumbering where we lay? America will we go down in history as a nation with no room for its king?

Categories: Basic Posts Tags: abortion, casting crowns, children, trees, while you were sleeping

two-thirds

November 12th, 2007 Curtis 1 comment

I have to admit that it is kind of sad looking forward to a weekend for 2 months and then just like that, it is over. Regardless, this weekend was a blast. The Casting Crowns was very good as expected, and I got to spend time with two very cool girls. In addition to being a fun weekend, it was also very informative… We learned several valuable lessons this weekend: Lessons 1-3: When copying driving directions from the internet, it’s best to just print them as steps may be missed during handwriting. When asking for directions. Look for someone who speaks the same language you do. When looking up directions for a concert. Look for the address for the arena, not the campus. Apparently, some campuses are the size of a small city. Lesson 4: Katie needs a rake. Lesson 5: Apparently, people really like booths at restaurants. Lesson 6: Some people don’t know how to pronounce “creek”. Lesson 7: Raspberry salsa isn’t that bad. Lesson 8: The game “Never have I ever” really isn’t that fair at all. (but I still won somehow) Lesson 9: Watch for throw up when exiting a vehicle.
That’s pretty much everything. In case you didn’t figure it out, we had a hard time finding the concert. Which wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. We found out that GPS does work but you have to put in the correct address. We also had a nice self led tour of Lehigh campus. And, we finally got escorted by the campus police to our destination. So while we didn’t exactly get to the concert on time, the 2/3 of it that we saw were very good. I tried to take a few pictures, but they didn’t turn out so well. Katie’s pictures were much better, they are below.	(This is a picture of the crowd when Mark told everyone to take out his or her cell phone and wave it. You can see them if you look closely.)
(Yes I strategically took the picture with some guy’s butt)
On Saturday we went to Kitchen Kettle Village. And first of all, I’d like to apoligize to Katie that we didn’t get to see the fudge making process. I know she was looking forward to that It was fun though. I tried pepper jam and found out that raspberry salsa is pretty good. Did we ever figure out what Minced Meat was though? I also had a heart to heart with an Amish horse.

Finally, it should be noted that around these activities, we were in the car for hours at a time. Some of us more than others. So thank you both for a wonderful weekend. I had a lot of fun… and I hope we can do something like this again in the future.