Clip: Mumford & Sons - The Cave

Clip: Mumford & Sons - New Song

I am excited to see Mumford & Sons in concert tonight at Merriweather Post Pavilion. I am also really thankful for an awesome wife who is willing to attend the outdoor concert (in 90 degree heat), while being 7 and a half months pregnant. She is a good woman!

This is one of my favorite Mumford lyrics:

It seems that all my bridges have been burned,
But you say that’s exactly how this grace thing works
It’s not the long walk home that will change this heart,
But the welcome I receive with the restart

Roll Away Your Stone - Mumford & Sons

If you don't have anything going on tonight, head over to Ebenezers Coffeehouse on Capitol Hill (2nd St & F St NE) for a screening of the documentary film, At the End of Slavery. It will be shown at 8:30pm in the lower-level performance space.

Narrated by actor Danny Glover, At the End of Slavery: The Battle for Justice in our Time takes you inside the violent and ugly business of modern-day slavery — the buying and selling of human beings — from the brothels of the Philippines to the brick kilns of India. 

Undercover footage and first-person testimony from former slaves and respected experts expose the enormity of the crime — but a remarkable strategy and the courage of today's abolitionists offer hope for a final end to this brutal trade.

-- Text from http://attheendofslavery.com/

View the At the End of Slavery Trailer

For your information, I love the song "God's Gonna Cut you Down" (played in the film's trailer) from the Man in Black, Mr. Johnny Cash.

http://www.lala.com/song/72339077605492772

For more information see: http://attheendofslavery.com/

The rock group Switchfoot released a new album this week, and the second track is song called "Mess of Me." The song's chorus declares:

I've made a mess of me I wanna get back the rest of me 
I´ve made a mess of me I wanna spend the rest of my life alive 
I´ve made a mess of me I wanna reverse this tragedy 
I´ve made a mess of me I wanna spend the rest of my life alive 
The rest of my life alive! 

Lately, I have been contemplating on a passage from the Bible that says:

For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.  --http://read.ly/Eph2.10.NLT

The song "Mess of Me" is a personal reminder that when I try to order my own life I tend to make a mess of it. I inevitably turn my focus toward financial gain and prestige, instead of focusing on the "good things" I was created to do.

A mash-up of the song lyric and the passage makes me picture a "masterpiece" of sculpture, like Michelangelo's David, shattered and scattered across the floor in little shards of marble. It was created anew as a spectacular piece of art and now it is reduced to a pile of rubble. I would hate to get to the end of my life and say, "I have made a mess of me, and I wish I would have spent my life alive." The amazing thing is God continuously gives me the opportunity to live the life he created for me. I don't have that kind of patience!