7 ”Two things I ask of you, LORD;
do not refuse me before I die:

9 Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you
and say, ‘Who is the LORD?’
Or I may become poor and steal,
and so dishonor the name of my God.

Looking back, in the early days when I said it, I had believed that I figured out some of the things that these men were doing wrong but often despaired over the things I hadn’t “figured out”  yet. Now a days, I feel like I have figured out as much as I am ever going to “figure out”, and with this knowledge comes the realization I don’t want it.

On one hand this is a daunting prospect with great challenges and pitfalls. On the other, it grants me the freedom to just be. This is a decision every man, and woman, most make. Is it worth it? and for the majority the answer is yes. Yet there is a small number of us, a very tiny majority, whose calling lies on path that’s best traveled… freely.

This month I find myself drawn to play “Hear my cry oh Lord” by Fred Hammond.

Hear my cry Oh Lord
Attend unto my
earnest prayers
Rescue me Lord Jesus
And take away my every fear

ya.

If the quality of music remains at this level this will be the best soca season since 2007 and the very least it would be on par with 2008 and i say that without apology.

So the top songs so far are:-

*Bacchanalist – Kerwin Debois
* Vybse cyah done – Machel Montano
Precision Wine – Kes The band
Gyal Wuk – Machel Montano
Whine – The IZ ft. Machel Montano
Wine On It – Shurwayne Winchester

Note: Those with the * are my anthems for this year

Now first thing to note is, as usual, Machel is all over this list… The man is the greatest soca artist of ALLLLLLL TIIIIIME (this too, is being said without an ounce of remorse or apology). The only surprise in the list is Kerwin who is a good artist but never usually produces anything that keeps me playing on repeat.  I am now eagerly awaiting the other soca greats and i fully expect the 2012 season to be a blast.

In the paraphrased words of Machel and Kerwin “Bacchanal does call me and i can’t say no, cause I is a Bacchanalist!”

I find this development fascinating, is this a product of my experience/age/maturity? or just an ending, or  beginning, of a phase?

Yet as I watched the entire film I felt a strong desire to be a part of a production of that scale…. Everything, all the moving parts, the stress, the work, the tedium, the everything…

I have tasted a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of what it is like to be apart of a production with panoridim and I know I am hungry for more. After watching this is it I am reminded that is a dream … to work on a production of that size. Maybe I am an adrenalin junkie but at the end of such a struggle an audience showing their love for what they have witnessed is all that is needed .

P.S. No I wouldn’t want to be on the stage.

Again I call You and again You answer.
Again I need You and again You?re there.
Again I reach out and again You hold me.
You console me once more and again.

²¹ Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

²² Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. ²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶ to make her holy, cleansing^[b] her by the washing with water through the word, ²⁷ and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. ²⁸ In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— ³⁰ for we are members of his body. ³¹ “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”^[c]32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. ³³ However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

This is an interesting passage of scripture that i have often heard growing up, but yesterday the pastor focussed on what the instructions means for both parties. Now, the entire message was enlightening for me but the part that caught my attention right of the bat was “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her”

What the…!?

Last i checked Christ died on the cross… in fact from what i heard about passion of the Christ, the death on the cross was just PART of what he suffered. And I’m supposed to be at a place where that sort of sacrifice is kosher?

Hiatus anyone?

P.S. I am still reading the book of Acts. Fascinating story. We know Paul dies in Rome but somehow the suspense is killing me. I keep hoping he will escape, that an angel will appear or some of the soldiers will take pity on him. In any case i have decided that book #3 will be Ephesians. It seems to be the most descriptive user manual for Christian living in the bible and promises to be an interesting read.

The WATA Party on friday august 5, 2011 was one of the BEST parties I have EVER went to.

And that is the sad part, I ended up leaving early primarily because I was there by myself. Tonight I felt alone, here I was feeling almost overwhelmed with joy at being at one of the BEST parties of the year and there was NO ONE to share it with.
I am too tipsy now to feel the full wait of the depression this will induce yet but … Sigh

I especially missed thinkbass and B. It is sad.

Tomorrow I will give a better idea of what transpired including:
- the security gaurd that had his gun out
- being stuck on the venue
- the stampede through the service gate
-my escape through said gate
- how BEaUTIFUL jamaican women are
- how even with just one soca segment the selctors were MAAAAAAAAD!!!!!

Till then good night all.

PS. I was alone and I did not like it.