One of the fun things about having children is that you get to share with them all the experiences that you enjoyed yourself, as a child. Scarlett has always enjoyed music. Rather indiscriminately, but nevertheless, she enjoys the phenomenon very much. We bought her a cd player for her room for her birthday just a few days ago and it's been a great chance to share with her some of my own favourite records. Album art is, of course, a big influence in what she wanted to try out, but she has ended up digging out some real classics that I was able to take great joy in rediscovering with her. She's particularly fond of Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, some Dolly Parton (Katie's input), and today, we enjoyed together Jefferson Airplane. The song in particular which she gravitated toward was the song White Rabbit. You can listen to it here. I'm particularly fond of this song because I saw Patti Smith perform it live many years ago and she really spun out the intro, crawling about on stage like a rabbit for a good 5 minutes or so before the song began proper. Great fun that was. Anyway, the end of the song really struck a chord with me as I listened again and I'd like to offer the advice of the Doormouse as a message for the new year.
The last half of the closing verse of the song simply says:
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead,
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head".
I think the message I would give to all Christians for 2022 is FEED YOUR HEAD!!
It is clear to me that the Western world is losing its grip on reality. Logic and proportion, it seems, have indeed fallen sloppy dead. The fact that the cult of transgenderism has driven full steam ahead, the plethora of pronouns invented, the idea posited that maths might be racist, the fact that abortion has been celebrated and many more weird and wacky ideas that have gained traction and public consideration demonstrate that the more godless we get, the more out of touch with basic reality we get. We deny God, and we end up denying the basic facts of reality. We have failed to read God's second book, and have lost the ability to read his first. We have rejected special revelation and have begun to reject general revelation.
Christian, in 2022, feed your head, but not because the dormouse said it, but because the apostle Paul said it (pretty much). From Romans 12:
"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect".
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