Sigur Ros
And he.. met sigur ros! He runs a coffee shop and somehow for some reason some of them walked in; they got talking and he told them he uses their music in worship settings and they were like, “ok..” so he asked if they would play for him and a few others in a small setting as they worship.. and they were like…. you know what.. that sounds pretty cool.. but then the icelandic guy was in england somehow even though he had no money, talking to me in southampton.. and it was all little bizarre. I mean, I think he literally had no money, I’m not sure what was going on with the coffee shop in that situation.
Recently though, I realise that I find myself in the position that… I have this faith… but naturally I tend to avoid.. structure or anything.. and I find it hard to connect with ‘big stuff’ as a result. Thats ok with me, I don’t know if thats ok with the God or not, but I just realised when I met a bunch of crazies this last weekend that.. somewhere down the line I got involved in something absolutely nuts.. which is all about hanging out with people.. and hanging out with God and.. we call that love.. and we like.. try and fix broken stuff because God fixed us and so we’re part of the kingdom of God.. which is a ‘way’.. or something which is more a series of actions and responses rather than a place… because the place God is in.. is in.. us? If we want him that is, even if all we want is a bit more love in our lives.. thats good too.
I also met these guys called the triibe. The triibe, beat things really hard as a way of talking to God.. they shout random stuff too, and it sounds pretty good actually. It made me think that to connect with God we really, really just have to put ourselves in this place where we forget about anything else but God and how he relates to us and the peoples/places we know.. and it’s like “God I’m here! Can we hang out?” and these guys who make up this triibe are talking to marxist professors in america now about God and hanging out with him which is nuts.
Northwood HQ
Today though I found out my friend Martin the out of work priest from london is going to court in two day’s time for protesting outside a military base over Iraq and Afghanistan awhile back and then refusing to pay fines.. nothing major bad would happen.. he says like, prison for a bit week or so but (that would sound pretty bad to me)… he really thought it important and I guess if you think somethings important you pay the price associated with it.. he’s pretty deep and.. pretty challenging in an ordinary sort of way…
So.. that was my weekend.. and it just all seems a little bit bizarre in retrospect. In a good way though I think..
I don’t do anything like these crazy people I’ve met but, that’s ok because I don’t think these people are doing anything but trying to find an authentic expression of who they are, how they relate to the world, to people and to God and the situations we sometimes find ourselves in. It just makes me think what a crazy world we’re part of sometimes.
