God - Radio

I lost my iPod somewhere on this trip. So I have been listening to the radio a lot. I'm not writing about the fact that popular stations only play like 6 songs with a few others thrown in - which is super annoying. When I think of music as art, I want to believe people who write songs are inspired by something that motivates them to write what they do. Listening to the radio stations around here I here a lot of todays rap-pop stuff. Most of what I hear is about love and sex. When I was little I heard songs with lyrics like "lets talk about sex baby lets talk about you and me". My son Nash will here lyrics like "you spin my head right round when you go down" and "I like it when you touch me there I like it when you pull my hair." all this to say sex/love constantly inspires people to write. People continue to try and put into words what exactly it is love does to them or what sex does for them. As vulgar as a lot of the songs are on the radio these days I find it amazing that love affects everyone form 80's hair bands to gangster rappers. Donald Miller wrote in To own a Dragon-
"I wondered if sliding our arms around a woman's hips wasn't a kind of infantile introduction to the metaphysical. If I allow myself I can see God holding up flashcards as I fall in love with a woman, cards that say, this is love, i am like this love only better"see, God says, pointing at the flashcard with the word "love" then pointing at his chest while I move down the woman's lips to her chin and neck. "See" God says putting down the "love" and picking up the "oneness" He says, "Get it? Do you see? It's all living metaphors. It's a hint of oneness- Like my trinity!"
If these earthly experiences and feelings that inspire these songs we here on the radio are God dropping hints. I can listen to this music and ask what is it that inspired "you spin my head right round when you go down," and think that God is showing this person that submission in the right context is a beautiful thing.

Somehow sex and love feels like a risk reward scenario that God was faced with. Like God knew he wanted people to experience a glimpse of what a relationship with him was like so he created relationships and sex. The risk was that people would take only the superficial things they can recieve from them and not see it for what it was intended. The reward would be that people would learn what true intimacy was. That they would be drawn to a relationship with the one created us all. I don't claim to know anything I'm just throwing my thoughts out there for you to take them or leave them
PEACE.