Gregory Alan Isakov. Maybe one of the best indie, folk musician to ever make an impression on the industry. With songs like these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZynIzXTvk4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_AKDeBakCw&feature=related

I've been listening to a lot of him recently and I think he sums up my music taste perfectly. Every song he sings reminds me of Canada and Alaska. Those memories he brings back are some of the best I've ever had. His music just sounds like it should be played across the endless mountains and rain forests of British Columbia. Long drawn out sunsets that leaves you wondering if the twilight hours will ever end. And then the cold, faint, stars that pop here and there by midnight make it worth while to stay up late. There's something different with those stars and planets compared to Texas. There's something different with the entire sky there. Its a sort of indelible sensation that you never want to end. Gregory's music brings back all of these memories quite clearly.

McBride Valley, British Columbia. 

and ahh that full bellied moon she's a shinin on me
yeah she pulls on this heart like she pulls on the sea

and those broken hearted lovers,
they got nothing on me

These lyrics is why I am an avid listener of his. His music seems to transform my idea of life, its almost pedagogic to my soul. One day I'll move to British Columbia and I'll remember what his music did to my life. One day I'll climb this mountain of faith that I'm trying to accomplish and his music will probably be right there the whole way. Thank you, sir. Thank you for the encouragement and the memories you'r music will always bring to my heart.  

Until next time, Thanks for reading!

True Love.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

What is love? Is it the simple love of mexican food or ice cream? Or is it someone you know that you truly love with all your heart? Maybe the real love is the fact God bestows his 'True love' on us and time and time again we're reminded that He has forgiven us of our sins. Maybe its the love He shows us each time we look around at this beautiful world we live in. He made it just for YOU! Its amazing. "Your love is deep, Your love is wide, Your love is great, Your love is high, Your love is all we ever need" Maybe its his love he has shown to us that teaches us to love. Maybe without his love we wouldn't know how to love at all. There would be no missionaries across the world helping thousands of people. Marriages wouldn't really be true marriage without the love that God has given to us as an example. There wouldn't be true compassion for one another without him. 

I have been reading 'Mere Christianity' recently and been reading about the Moral law that is embedded in our hearts from God. It tells us to do the right thing and to walk straight. Its that little voice in the back of your head telling you what you're doing is wrong. I think this is just another way God has shown his love for us. Without him we wouldn't have that little voice telling us that what we're about to do is wrong. True Love wouldn't exist. 

It amazes me over and over again. Humans, who think we're all that in a bag of chips in this world, can be loved so much even with all the wrong we do. We are soooooo small in contrast to the universe, and there is someone bigger and better than us. And he still loves us even when we think we're better than him. 

I think the basis of morality and everything good in this world comes from him and only him. There is nothing man made that can be better then what he has already made for us. And I think this is True Love. The very fact that we're living today is a gift from God. In spite of all the wrong we do, we are constantly forgiven. We are loved.  

Jesus Lord of Heaven - Phil Wickham.