CPS album

   Ended up in Vegas for a few weeks, but we are back in business friends.

   I was able to make it back to Wisconsin just in time for a weekend with Brooklyn's finest, Christopher Paul Stelling.  His album, "Songs of Praise and Scorn", which you can get here, is a fantastic journey through belief and disbelief in both spirituality and love.  It's a journey that I am constantly struggling with, constantly fighting against.  On Solar Flares Chris questions, "...ain’t it always these god damn sleepless nights?  Ain’t we always wondering in a desert somewhere, always taking lefts when we know there’s only wrongs and rights?"  But, if you are at all like me, you find enjoyment rationalizing the darkness between wrongs and rights.  It also becomes easier as these rationalizations become more and more commonplace.  Original sin at it's core.  I can't blame Adam for the Fall of Man, I'm sure the fruit looked delicious, "swear I’m not a bad person, no, just got a strange darkness living in me."  If anyone is to blame, and this is part of my struggle, it is God.  He is omnipotent, for Christ's sake, so how can I blame Him either.  A Flawless Executioner indeed.  "Hey y’all remember that time when we prayed hard for rain?   The good lord he only sent clouds."  Seems so drastic, wouldn't it be easier if we all lived harmoniously, in symbiotic bliss?  I question whether I even have the worth to question, because I am, in fact, breathing.  "They carved [poor Leviathan] up and fed him the their children saying praise the good lord we’re satisfied."  Leviathan is one of the seven princes of Hell and, according to Job 41:33, "nothing on Earth is his equal...", yet God has kept me from him.  But, Leviathan is just doing what he feels is right, and who am I to tell him he is wrong?  And so the struggle continues...

   Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed.  Maybe I will delve into the struggle with love aspects that I enjoyed about the album at a different date.  All quoted lyrics were taken from the liner notes.