Only in Nashville

It was pretty cold out today, but that didn't stop the Musica Caliente festival that was right outside my front door. It was kinda cool to watch/listen to all of the music/dancing. Only in Nashville will you have a 40 degree differencein temperature between two days though. No worries... I didn't really spend much time outside anyways, and it's not as if the past week hasn't been pleasant enough. I suppose it was due time for some dreary weather of sorts. "If the sky was always blue, there'd be only desert." So having company has been nice. We spent time roaming around, which I never really get to do that often. I guess I take Nashville for granted when I live here all the time. I think I know it well enough until someone actually comes for me to show around. Then I realize just how much I don't know. We had a good time anyways. We checked out the two studios and we spent some time driving around. We also spent some time at Mellow Mushroom and had good conversation about Christian theology. I find I don't get to have too many conversations like that around Belmont. So many people are bitter against God here, making all these excuses about how Christians have set them against God. I'm sorry, but I've been in similar situations, and I know first hand that no one sets you against God but yourself. You can cast blame all you wan't, and if you think you're "getting back" at God by being bitter against Him... well that's a bad place to be. Life isn't guarunteed enough to keep that kind of mentality nor is it long enough to "figure yourself out or get your life cleaned up". Those are all seemingly poor excuses to put off facing fears, namingly giving up your self. I'm not standing here saying that as a superior, unscathed by sin. But just as a reformed alcoholic has the right to speak out against the evils of alcohol, I feel I have the right to speak out against the evils of a stagnant, self destructive, excuse filled lifestyle. Anyways, tomorrow should be nice, weather wise. I'm still fighting every day, and learning just the same. I hope to always be fighting and learning as long as I live, but fighting with peace of mind and heart, as well as love. Peace and love.